Meeting and Conclave, August 11-14
This year we will again hold our 82 will be different from previous gather- socializing, excellent lectures and dem- Annual Membership Meeting dur- ings in some ways, especially in the em- onstrations, and great fishing. Additional ing the Conclave of the Federation phasis by speakers and exhibitors on prac- details about the Conclave schedule are of Fly Fishers. The Conclave will tical down-to-earth guidance for the average available from the Federation of Fly be held August 11-14 at West Yel- fly fisher. Several improJements have been Fishers Headquarters, Post Office Box lowstone, Montana. All Museum made in the arrangements for exhibitors, 1088, West Yellowstone, Montana, 59758 members will be receiving a notice so that the West Yellowstone Convention (1-406-646-9541). The Federation maintains of the times and dates of Museum meetings Center will be used for commercial displays a full time office in West Yellowstone, 1(both a general membership meeting and a and fly tying demonstrations, and the town's and it's not too Board of Trustees meeting will be held, gymnasium will not be used. early to start mak- one immediately following the other). These are exciting times for both the ing your plans If you have never attended a Conclave, Federation and the Museum. Conclave for the Conclave. you owe it to yourself to do it. We've been 82 promises to be an eventful one, and told by this year's planners that Conclave offers fly fishers the chance for some good
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Aficionado Fishes Worms by Elizabeth Walden Hyde
Don Martinez by George Grant
Royal Coachman
John Shaw of Drumlanrig by Alec Jackson
Yellowstone Fishes in the Mind of Man by John D. Varley and Paul Schullery
Books
Museum News
Volume 9 Number 2 The Center and the Conclave SPRING 1982
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Pl~hli~~tion Production and Pritrting (:o~~~right1982, l'hr M~~sc,~inrol Atnc,ric:an Fly Fishing. Manchcstvr, Vrrmot~t05254. Original ntatrrial Journal Press, Inc. alywarittg !nay not hr rrprintrd withntlt prior pcrn~issictn. Poultney, Vermont 7'1~,l,ncka,t Re Fisher- [ISPS-097-4 10 Aficionado Fishes Worms A Study of Hemingway and Jake by Elizabeth Walden Hyde "You going to fish Ilait?" wontlrt-ful story" of tl(-;tth in thr frozc*n is tlir gootl life,, r~nknownto the wastr- "Yeah. I'm goingto fish the clam hrrc." AI1)swl1cre a 1)ritle waits twrnty-four yrars lantlrrs, 1,ady Br(>ttAshlcy ant1 her dissolr~tc "Well, I'll take the fly-book then. . . ." with her "true love" for thc eroom's bodv cil-clr, who haven passed up thr fishing for ". . . Take a worm can." to (merge from a glacier. Bill rctrll-11s at sc,x ;ttitl alcohol ant1 for corrul)ting 1':un- "No, I don't want onca.If they don't take last, sweating and smiling, wet to thc waist plona's ~wizrtlyoung mat at lo^-. "It brings a fly I'll just flick it around."l ft-om wading. I I(: prc,srnts four trortt hc [Jakr] health. I)ICYISIII-~>, l)cbnr~tyand ortlcr, In The Sui~Also Rises Bill Gorton goes has caught on a McGinty, about the only antl 1icll)s to wil)o out the tlnmage of his off downstream while lake Barncss sitson a fly Ilrmingway rver mentions brsidrs the troul~lrtllifr in I'aris." Mark Spilka writes dam of the Irati River, a remote stream in Royal Coachman. Each onc is biggcr than in his ~rcll-knowncassay. "l)(*ath of I.ovc5 in Spain, one he knows to Ijr full of trout, and thc one bcl'orc*, antl all I~utthe smallc~stare 7%~SIIII ill.ro Ki.~cs."2 threads a worn1 onto his hook. I~ctterthan Jakr's. Jakr csxl)r'sses cBnvy,ad- I'rt-haps, but a I'rw l,rtzzling dt.tails stantl Bill is an old friend from thc States, a mits all six of his were caught on worms, is out. Why the monastcry? \Yhy does Jnkc lot like IIemingway'sold friend Bill Smith called a lazy I)r~nl,and stirs himself to collect s1)rcxacl out tlir ~~icnicand srrve it without from Michigan. Jake is an expatriate news- thc chilledwinr and to sl)trad ortt thr picnic any hell) from Bill? \Vhat's this about a paper man living in Paris. IIe wants tobe a (SAN. 118-121). groot11 in n glacier? And a fcw more qucs- writer. A wound from thc. war has Ic,ft him Among scholarly critics of 7%e Stir1 Also tions a trout fisherman is 1)ound to ask: impotent. In Spain for the fishing antl Pam- Kfses there must not br any fly I'is1ic1-mrn. Why does Wilson-I Ial-ris give Jakr a tlozcn plona's fiesta, lake isn rccognizcd aficiona- I'or half a ccntr~rycritics antl caml)r~sclass- hantl-tied flics 11c~'llncvc,t. fish with? Is it do; in other words, Spaniards can sense rooms have brcn questioning the signifi- likcly a fly at mitlday woultl bringa bigger that he is a passionatc co1111oisserrr of the cance of Jake Barnes' wor~nd,br~t nothing fish than a worm sunk deep at a dam? And artistry of thr bullfight. I Ir's got thc/celitl,q in print has called attention to thc worm. forrniost, flarrs the q~restion:If "i~ficion IIc pr~tson "a good-sizc,tl sinkcr" antl The Br~rg~~ctc-Iratiintrrl~~de shard by means passion" (SAR. 1111), "passion of lets it cirol) I)clow him closc to thr c*tlgr of Jake, Bill. and their new acquaintance, an knowledgc~. . .wholly nrtthcntic, meaningfrtl the dam. Ilr doesn't fc~.lthc fit-st strikr. Englishman named Wilson-IIarris who and pure, and something that Jakr hatl to I Iis rod I)c.nds almost do1t1)lr wli(~n11r starts leaves then1 c.ac11 a dozrn hand-tied flies, acquire through persistc,nt effort" (I.eo "to pull rtl)." 111 a littlc wliil(~hc. has six has been invariably described as an idyll, a <;urko, Ei71est Ileiilii~g-ri1c1.v(ii~rl tl~e Purstiit ?/ good trout, bangctl-out tlratl ~IIthr tlam sort of pastoral sojourn for the restoration Hcroistil [New York: Crowrll, 15168], 11. 58), besictc him. IIc atlmircts thc~irco1o1- ant1 of souls. Together the. men hikr from and if the 1)ursuit of 11c.roism is "a reaction firmiic~ss.I lc guts th(3rn I)c~car~sc~it's a hot I3t1rgrtetr through slol)ing ficltls antl woods to t11c moral c~nil)tinessthat [I Iemingway's clay, and can-irs thcm off to I)(, waslic~tlnntl and ovcrl~illstofish the Irati. Thcy lazeon hrroic fig~~rcns]feel coml,rlled to fill by l~acketlin layers of fc~rnsin his 1);1g. The* its banks, c.xl~lorea monastery, drink beer t11c.ir own sprcial rffort" (Gurko, 1). 23(i), bag is now fr~ll,so tic scttles 1)ac.k to rratl "a and play cards back in B~trgr~rtr.This what's this frllow Jakc doing sitting on a Page 2 dam fishingwom~swhile the trout arc rising maybe his creator has not, and ignorance and taking flies ul1strram from him and glares through his fiction here? Or, could Ircrli attd 1'1.7 ~i.iIerstrea~i~.~ 011 the Spanish- down? lakc's sedentary fishing habits have to do, I;,.CIICIIborder. pholo cotirtesv ?/ fllc S,t>aiti.i/t In "Fishing svitll a \I'ol-m" Bliss I'rrry. somehow, with his wound? A'atio~~al7'ouri.il Officc. an early Atla~tticMoilth!~ etlitor, w11o along Ilelbert E. Wyldcr writesof Jake in Helit- with Izaak Walton doesn't mind admitting iltpa-vk Heroes (Albuquerque: Univ. of New he caught his last trout on a worm,compares Mexico, 1969), "Between the idea of how fly-fishing to the poetry of angling and he should act and the reality of how he worm fishing to "angling's honest prose."" does, falls the shadow of his wound" (11.54). Trout impossible to reach with a fly, Perry Perhaps he shouldn't get it wet. But the says, should be lured by a worm-felici- next day he does and tells us, "It was hot tously dropped ovrr that bank of bog grass enough so that it felt good to wade in a cold cause and the nature of Jake Barnes's wound into the right cleel) spot, if the l~umblccl stream, and the sun dried you when you force his experiences into a level of sym- angler can crawl on his belly under alders came out and sat on the bank" (SAR. 125).It bolic relevance which makes his slow, un- and cedar bows and sometimes fish with was hot on the first day, also. Was he too certain struggle to regain a positive stance the rod tip only and two feet of linr. At tired to wade and cast? EIe had hiked a toward life as much a parable as an 'epis- certain times a trout will take only live long way and was tired, but he had travelled tenlological' romance" (p. 160).On the other bait; sotl~cnarrow deep brooks, some from Paris to Brlrguete in order to hike a hand, any forcing of Jake's Irati experience stretchesof streams, can't be reached with a long way for some excellent wild fishing, "into a level of symbolic relevance" soon fly. In defensc~of worm fishing Perry pro- the kind of fishing you have to hike a long appears needless with Rovit's reminder that nouncrs: "No man is a oiltpkte anglcr until way to find. You can fish over datns at "IIemingway's fictions seem rooted in his he has mastered all modes of angling," but home. journeys into himself much more clearly he warns that "a man should be honest." Metaphorically, then, is the wound in- and obsessively [than otherwriter's fictionsl" Jakr is honest about his six trout, but he volved here? All IIemingway tells us about (11. 164). neither had to crawl on his belly nor coax Jake and his wound, after the novel was Is the sequence then simply autobio- with a worm what a fly could not interest written, is this: "Me was capable of all nor- graphical? Would Hemingway who trout- anywhere along the Irati's open stretches mal feelings as a man [sic.] but incapable of fished all his life and wrote about it, who of water prime for casting. Are we then to consummating them. The important dis- penned an appreciative "Foreward" to supl1ox that the aficionaclo of the bull- tinction is that his wound was physical and Charles Ritz's A F(v Fisher's Life, and who fight's poetry and precision, lir~who has not psycl~ologicaland that he was not elxias- like Jake was a wounded veteran, expatri- fished for trout all his life, has not yet culated."4 In Entest Hen~in~pa~y(New York: ate writer and aficionado of the bullfight, mastered the mode of fly-fishing? Or, that Twayne, 1963). Earl Rovit tells tnore:"The have dropped a worm over the dam in this Page 3 same situation? Did he? gall trout fishing when he writcs of the The real Bill "Gorton1'of Michigan has salne two anglers fishing the Black River, admitted to fishing the Irati River with each with a wet fly on one hook (there's IIcmingway and to most of the dialogue your fly) and a grasshopper on another. during the streamside picnic. The play on Twice by this method Sniith landetl two the word "utilize" (SAR. 122) he recalls as fish at once, and together they caught sixty- his own. "I guess we all have our moments," four in one day (11. 62). Baker also tells of he said. Interviewer Donald St. John did the lad who had iccn using grasshoppers not ask him if IIen~in~.wavs. , fished bait at for bait for years when lie received a grade the dam, if he was reading of a groom in a of 90 on a six-page Biology paper, "Thr glacier when and if Bill Smith returned Anatomy of the Grasshopper" (11. 18). IIis with better trout caught on a fly, and if the I~rotherLricestcr IIcmingway writcs that Englishman -there was, indeed, an En- before first grade Ernest could give the glishman-had joined them to visit a mon- Latin names for morc than two hundred astery. Details. IIemingway was "an artist ancl fifty birds (MvBrother Enzest Hen~in~pa?, . . . not a diarist," Sniith said in his fa~nous [Cleveland: World, 19611, p.24), many of friencl'sdefensc.5 Nevertheless, in the Bur- which would soon fall victim to his shotgun. guete-Irati episode of The Suil Also Rises One, a snipe [Capella delicata],he consumed the diarist's hand would seem blatantly raw on a five-clollar bet (11. 70). The only evident. A look into IIcmingway'spast, his other hint at early fly-fishing is found in fishing methods and the extent of his writ- this volume: "By the spring of 1920 . . . ing that touches on trout will answer the Ernest was again longing to be in northern questions posed here. Michigan, outwitting the local trout with Henlingway grew up in Michigan where both natural bait and flies" (pp.61-62). Also, he spent his summers at Walloon Lake. IIc a cr~riousmention of post-war fly-fishing: caught many trout, big ones, but in the "Ernest wasenthl~siasticoverthe fly-fishing plethora of IIemingway biographies and in the Rhonc Valley, where the water was reminiscences that recall the barefoot boy just clear enor~gllto fool the trout" (11.71)). with pole and string of trout, I could find Mary Welsh IIcmingway, in How I! Was only two mentions of fly-fishing in Michi- (Ncw York: Knopf, 1976), breathes not a gan. One is in Ertles! Hei71it1gu1av:A Life word on trout. Other related sporting habits Stor\l (New York: Scribner's, 1969) where of her husband, however, come into focus. Carlos Baker describes IIcniingway's rc- Illegal pheasant hunting in Oak Park:"Yor~ turn to the Irati River after loggers hat1 hat1 to get rid of them quick because they ruined the fishing. "Bill Smith had brought had just introdr~ccdthem," said IIeming- along a box of sure-fire old favorites from way, who had to carry his kill home in his the summers at Elorton Bay [near Walloon shirt and dispose of the bones in the wood- Lake]: McGinty's, Royal Coachmans, Yel- burning range, a smell he would never low Sallys. . . . They put the flies away and forget (p.227). A heron, the biggest he had used worms and grasshoppers" (13. 149), ever seen, he shot with a rifle at age for~rtcen, and four days passecl without yielding a "just for fun" (11. 22H), ancl was nearly trout. One might be satisfiecl with this, that arrested. Also for fun, and because they indeed Hcmingway was a fly fisherman of wcre loosc near the garden, he shot two of some ability when he wrote The Suil Also his neighbor's rare Belgian hares, but this Rises, were it not for the smack of salt in occurred after the war ancl his brother Horton Bay ancl the almost complete 1,eicester attributes the cvcnt to aftereffects indifference to fly-fishing in the stacks of (MvBrother Erites! Heiilii~,yu~a~,11. 59). Hemingway printed matter, on him and When I Iemingway and his fr~endSamp- by him. Baker gives a better idea of Michi- son shot a porct~l~inefor fun, Ilr. I4cming- way intervened and made then1 cook and eat it-all."Fatherhad thegrcatestcontempt for socalled sportsmen who killed ruth- lessly for the fun of killing or to boast about the size of the bag," Marcelline IIem- ingway Sanford rcmcnibers in A! the Hem- iilgu~avi(Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, I!)(il), 11. 82. An "exl~onentof decency in sport" (13. 82), the gentle country cloctor and father of six, who later took his own life, isquoted by hisdaughtcrassaying,"It takes iudgmcnt to shoot. It takes kindness Ernest Heiil iilgulav 's Har Page 4 Palnplona and the lrati River are in north-central Spain, quite near the Atlantic cocrst and the French border. Tlie Iratiflou~s.youth fronl France into the Ebro, u~hichflows into the Mediterraizean Sea. rules and tcchniqucs taught by his father a sense of glory far beyond that of the or- thousand pocnds, that would be, before epitomized the male tradition and provided dinary bullfighter. In other words he must loading up the trophies. an escape from a femininc environment be a simpler man . . .he must have a spiritual "If sport is a mirror of life it is also a (p. 9). (IIemingway had four sisters and a enjoymint of the moment of killing" (p. mirror of any other activity in life, such as dominating niothcr.) A page later, though, 232). writing," states John Atkins in The Art of Benson seems to contradict himself; he says In the son's sense of honor we hear the Ernest Hemingway: His Work and Personality that for Ilemingway fishing was "a rclease father's voice, and in IIemingway's repeated (London: Spring Books, 1952), p. 104; from anxiety . . . often produced from the insistence on the clean kill, but the rest be- "Today [Hemingway] says, 'I'm modest. I continual effort of trying to bc a man" (p. gins to seem like an aberration. When in just want to be champion.' " (By this time 10). top form, Ernest Hemingway did not simply he was after tuna.) IIere is what Ilenlingway had to say kill cleanly, he enacted a favorite phrase. Of four hundred and twenty-seven about it to Archibald Ma~l~cisli:"Fishing is IIe administered death. Hemingway contributions (including re- as exciting as war."" Far removed now from his father's in- prints) to newspapers and periodicals, only Hemingway thrilled to the fcel of "hors- fluence, the big-game hunter can not be seven focus on trout fishing, and two of ing in" (or "out") a trout. "People that have satisfied without a kudu: "I'd rather get those are reprints. "Are You All Set for never horsed them out don't know what one than all the rest [oryx, leopard, lion, Trout?'(TorontoStar Weekly, April 10,1920) they can make you feel," he once said and waterbuck, etc., already bagged]. . . I don't presents practical tips on what to buy, how added a cryptic question: "What if it only give a damn about these rhino outside of much to pay, what bait to use, whdn and lasts that long?"' Thefeeling is what counts. the fun of hunting them. But I'd like to get where, and tells how to "horse in" a trout In his autobiographical "Big Two-IIcarted one that didn't look silly beside that dream rather than jerk it out of the stream. "Fishing River," Nick Adams, back from thc war, rhino of his" (Green Hills ofAfrica, pp. 87- for Trout in a Sporting Way" (Toronto Star "felt all the old feeling" when his "heart 88). Ilis remorse for a bungled bagging, a Weekly, April 24, 1920) says to use worms tightened as the trout moved." Again, wounded sable bull left to the hyenas be- and live bait. Expensive gear is not needed. Hemingway on feeling: "You cannot live cause it could not be found, seems sincere "Trout rise to a hopper far more readily on a plane of the sort of elation I had felt in enough ("I was thinking about the bull and than they do to a fly, and they are bigger the reeds and having killed, even when it wishing to hell I had never hit him" [p. trout. If you want to insure catching big is only a buffalo, you fcel a little quiet 271]), although he never alludes to the leop- trout, put three good sized hoppers on the inside. Killing is not a feeling that you ard he shot at blindly, several times, ac- hook." share . . ." (Green Hills ofAfrica [New York: cording to wife Mary in How It Was. The One notable exception to the Heming- Scribner's 19351, p. 120).Aficion, as we have leopard trailed blood and "a piece of shoul- way habit comes in "The Best Rainbow established, is subjective feeling, the hand- der blade" until finally they "found the Trout Fishing" (Toronto Star Weekly, Dec. on-shoulder touching to express shared beastie dead" (p. 368). When, toward the 11, 1920) which shows respect for the fly knowledge and passion for the bullfight, close of the safari, laden with hides and fisherman and almost as much for the and Death in the Aftenzooiz (1932; rpt. New horns the vehicles arrive at the outpost, rainbow trout as is shown elsewhere for the York: Scribner's, 1960)addsthis: "The truly the ghost of father looms. L'Weate the meat," bu11.8 Hemingway describes leaving the great killer must have a sense of honor and Ernest assures the reader (p.272),-several rapids, too rough for fly-fishing, and hiking Page 5 ming we'd dropeverything and haul in the fish. I.ost one or two rods that way, I remeni- ber. Some of tho.;<.tror~t were seven, eight IIOIII~~S.'"~ The picture, I Icmingway paints of him- self as anglrr is quite of another hue. Nick Adams, takcn from the start for a very slightly fictional version of tllc young IIem- ingway, is IIr~ckFinn coml)lete with willo\c~ pole and coil of silk line wcdgetl at thca tip. In "The Last Good Country" lit, lands a trout too big for tlic pan but has to kill it. As often 11al)pens with live bait, the trout has swallowed worm, hook, and all. IIr then sets out for shallow watcr to catch a, co1111le of small ones, thr sizr his sistcr prcfcrs. just right for their frying pan at the campfire. Ilc wants no one else to dis- covrr his wild river (TlzcNick Ar1a111sStoric.s [New York: Scribncr's, 19721. 111). 10l)ff.). The big trout in "On Writing" fares better. Nick releasc~sit alivc from the water-filled bagslmngat hissitlc*."IIe was toobigtocat. I'll get a couple of littlr ones in front ol' camp for su1)per" (11. 240). In "Big Two- IIrarted River," fishing again I'or thc first time since the war, "Nick had one gootl trout. IIc (lid not care about getting many tror~t."Onlyin "The End of Something" is thcrr an indication of how things wcrr r~srlallydone. Wlicn tlic lake fish wrrc.n't biting from tlic boat, Nick and his girl friend who loved to fish srt "11 the skinnctl- ~wrclimethod and bracctl tlicir steel rocls on the shore, but nothing was fun anymore (111). 201-204). Critics are nrverthclcss setlr~cedby "a cnrrfully determined order of virtuc and eight miles to a pool where his Royal Coach- thrown into tlie lake." in "Fishing for Trout simplicity . . . self-disciplinrcl moral con- nian can take ;9-pound, 26-incher. The in a Sporting Way," were not caught by thc tlr~ct."~"tlir sportsman's code hancletl clown feeling iscertainly there when the two tirecl method described: "These monster trout from fatlicr to son. Carlos Baker eml~ha- figures "slog into the foregror~nd"anddrop won't touch a fly and we fish for them by sizes tlic spirit of "fair play" in "Big Two- their heavy packs near the pool, and it's casting out from the bank with minnows I lrartetl River." Nick wrts his hands bcfore there during the explosion ancl battle scene, and letting theni lie on the bottom of tlic rclcasinga small trout, ancl "as iffor fislier- and I would happily believe him if it weren't channel," (TSW, April 10, 1920).According man's luck"1~the threaded grasshopper for some other fish stories. to Rill Smith, "That is not the way you "took hold of thc hook with his front feet. In Green Hills of Africa "Pop" says to cast with minnows when taking Rainbow. spitting tobacco juice on it." Philip Young, Ilem, "You damned liar," while IIcming- But no matter," hc said to interviewer St. too, remarks: "IIc knows precisely how to way answers, "I swear to God" (p.210). The John. "I Iem angled storiesasdocseveryonc. disengage anti throw back a small trout so story goes that he caught three big trout, Particularly when they were fishing stories." it will not suffer from the cxperiencc~,and "the biggest bloody kind" (p. 211), on a The customary tactic for catching Rainbow hc spits on his bait for luck" (Enlest He~nirrg- river nobody ever fished, so hard to get to went like this: "We'd cut the head off a u1a.v [New York: Rhinehart, 19521, p. 19).In when he was a kid,"out on tlie hncklcberry small perch, skin it back, put the hook "Big Two-IIeartcd River," Nick fishes all plains beyond the Sturgeon and the Pigeon" through the tail and let it drift to the bottom day long without once, reaching I'or the (p. 210). That's belly-crawling country, and [dropped from a boat, without casting]. book of flies bulging in his I~rcast~)ocket. if "the kid"did catch those fish, it's a pretty Then we'd bring the lines to shore, prop 01' fifty grassliopl~c~rstrapped in a jar. safe bet (reading IIemingway) they were theni up with log butts, set the reel and sccl~r-c~lin anotl~crpocket, he rlscs five. not hooked on a cast "the second the flies wait for a bite. We'd have several rods set I Iiscigllt-dollal-casting line is fed out with hit the water" (p. 210). Then again, thr that way and while we waited we'd play the current. A l'ly rot1 horses in his trout. trout whose leaps reso~~nded"like bathtubs poker or 'catch.' When tlic reel started hum- I lc krcys his gut Irndcr coilcd in dam11 Page 6 I'la~~nclinsitlt, a pouch. Ilc kills his trout witliol~tresponding to the "littlc strc,am in his lilc, tlie incomplete angler, the incom- I~rl'orc~cleaning thcm, lic \vliacks thcir hrntls collcd tlic Klione Canal." Brown with the plete man. against n log. ant1 that is gootl. "\Vhat is rush ofcal-ly spring it spills from a hillside clcan is good, truct. and I~eautil'ulant1 vice \vlic~-c~a few' mc~tlic~valtlwcllings catch the vrl-sa. I'o r~ndrrstantlIlcmingway's ncs- late sun. It 1)rcssrs on, tlcrl) ant1 ~n~~fflrd IErnrst I Irmingway. 7%cSlrr1AlsoRlres(Nrw theticone must rcalizc, that thcscs thingsarc thror~gliI'ic,ltls tillctl for ccntul-irs, ant1 as Yor-k: Scribncsr's. 1112fi). 1). 18: s~ll)sc.quc.ntcita- ~)rncticallyintrrcli;mgcal)lc~~'." \vritrs Rich;t~-tl thc anglcr moves ~~l)strcnmagainst thc, 1io1,sfrom thi\c*tlition al)l)rar in thc,trxt ;isSAR. I<. I'C~C~SOIIin IIe~tiit~~~~(i\':I)ir~c/at~(/ Ohliylcc~ with ~)ag(~I~IIIIII)~I-. (I'nris: Mor~ton.IO(i!I). 1). 55. One might with history, dcath ant1 ~-c,nc,wal,thc thrill' ""1)~~;111i01 I.o\.(. it1 Tlrc Srcir /Ilso Urser," put in an ol~liclr~cwortl for thc, gr~~ssIiol)l)er of' a vcry old sl~ol-t.lIis trout is without Ilciilril,qi~'ar~nirrl llis critic.^, cd. Carlos l I3ut is lic lionrst? Many arc clr~ickto put worm on thc. curvr of thr liook with half \\.av's 'Ilill (;ortoll.' " 1). IliO. l'alxl do\lrn, csvcsn as thc grc'at al'icionatlo thc worm free to wriggle. I Ic also instructs ~l'CarlosB;~kcr-. Hr,i~ii~q~c'ar,: 7%~ M'i7trrn.s Arti.st, and crlcl)rato~-of Sl~ain. AI-tr~l-oIlal-(%a, one the master baitsman on grr111 for Ar~g~~st1!)5'2: 3rd csd. (I'rinrrton: ITniv. I'rc-ss, 19fi:I). 1). ~~lioslio~~ld k110~7, insists tlii~tIIrming:.\vay fishing, ant1 I Icmingway conclr~ctc.~tlic neat 126. I Ilhid. has wrong all tlic tlrtails ofSl)ain, its womcsn little piece with a recipe for Swiss "blue "" . . . l)rrllrt . . . bit Iiis flank ant1 rippcd in :uid FI-anco's Civil \17al-.To Bal-to's thinking tror~t." slrtltlrn h~)tscaltling narrsca tlirough his stomach. I lcmingwav was "a s1)cctator \\rho wantcd Bill Smith was right. Ilemingway was I Ir trottrtl, heavy, Iig-lootc.d, swinging worrndrd to br an actor and who wantcttl to writ(%as if not a diarist. Although it is now al)parent frrll-brllic~tl,through thr trrrs toward thr tall hc were an actor. Yet it is not rnol~ghto tliat his limited knowledge of' fly-fishing at grassand covcr. . . . T~CIIit craslird again and Iir look on : to write t~-l~tlifl~llyyo11 nil~stlive, the time he wrote T/IESun Also Risescan ac- frlt the hlow as it hit his lowcxr ribs, and ripped and you must fccl what you arc living."lJ count for some of tlie doubtful aspects of on through, blood sudden hot and frothy in Iiis No/celir~,ythen, citlirr? Ilc who has I~ccn the B~~rgurtc-Iratisequence, invention is mouth. arttl hr gollol)c-tl to\vord thc high gwhs whrrc. hr could crouch ant1 not be sern and linked with I.ouis BI-omfield for his "love there, and for a pr~rl,osc. If it were drawn makr them \)ring thr crashing thing closrrnougli of the good earth, of cool streams . . . witho~~t directly from life, as is most of the dialogue, so hr rould makc a rirsh and get the man that question. I lrmingway's hasic affirmatio~~"" Rill (;orton wor~ldhave gone off down- Itcld it"; I lemin~way,"Tli(. Sliort I lappy Lifc of is accused 11y Mark Spilka of taking "less stream with a McGinty on one hook and a Francis Macornl~c~~-."771e Short Stories o/ Erlrcst tlrlight in nature than in outdoor sports. l~ol~pcron the other while IIemingway Hetniii,pl~\'.1025 (rpt. Nc-w York: Srribner's, 1969), IIe is more concerncd, that is, witli haiting would liavc covered the dam pool and 1). 15. hooks and catching trout than with thc waded on up\tream with two or three l'iIle~i~ingway."Now I Lay Mr." Me11 uithout Irati River and morr plrased with thc gracr hol)pcr~hugging hi\. IIe would have been Woiileir. 1927 (rpt Ncw York: Scribner's. 1955). and skill of the I)ullfigl~tcrthan with tlic up as early as Jake: "It was cool outside in 1'. 220. I4"Not Spain 1111t I lrmingway." Henliir,p~a~v bull's magnificcncc~." IIis scenic dcscri1,- tlie early morning and the sun had not yet and HG Crilics. 1). 212. tions, drvoid of seasonnl cliangc.~,exhibit dried the drw that had come when the 'SMicharl F. Molonry. "F:rnest I lemingway: no deep frc-ling. Spilka argues ant1 is wind died down" (SAK. 112). But not for The Missing I)imcnsion," Heiiringu~a~vand His seconded by Samuel Shaw. Shaw cannot wornis. This is grasshol,l~c.~--gathc~-ingCn'lics, p. 181. imagine IIcmingway spending more than time, whcn they can't hop away, that almost IhSpilka."Death of Lev? in Tl~cSunAlsoRises," a few days at Walden I'ond or on tlic Irati breathless moment of hope and fresh be- Heiirii~~pla~and His Cn'tics, p. 92. Rivrr before returning to the city. "Ilorts- ginnings tliat Nick Adams and Elenling- dom would destroy tl~cpleasure" (Eri~esl way knew so well. Elizabeth Waldetl Hyde teaches Anterican Heiniil,yula~[New York: Ungar, 19731, 11. The monastery? The groom in the Literature, Shakespeare and u~ritingin New 33). Enough. It istime to rise to the drfcnse glacier? Not feeling the trout strike? Artistic York. Her rton-/iction attd,/?ction have appeared of a much belcaguered author of scvcrol invention all. IIe111ingway has picked his in rrunlerous ma,gazitzes and journals. She is importa~~tand lasting Amcrica~inovc,ls. details with a purpose. We must see in curwntlv preparing the remaining manuscripts One cannot rcacl "Fishing the Rlionc Jake's worm the thing that it is, a graphic qf her late /ather, Howard T. Walden 2d, for Canal" (Torottro IIail11 Stal; June 10, 1922) symbol of impotence, and in liis actions as publication. Page 7 Don Martinez Western Dry Fly Master by George Grant Ilonald Skillman Martinez was a "Skillma~i is my mitltlle name, my out) It-om thr vn1;uicc nl~ovcthc wall pal>cr. professional fly ticr w11o. tiuring mother's family name-town near Prince- A closrar c,x;umination ~zroultlhnvc revr~alctl the years from about 1932 to 1943, ton is where the first settlers of that name that thc I-otls bo~-c,st~cli namcs as I.connrtl, spent his summers in West Ycllo\v- hcld forth. Around here anyone whosc I'aync, Lrw Stonc~l-,rtc. Ilc woulcl llavc, stone, Montana, ant1 his winttl-s in name ends in "ez" is al~toniaticallyMcxi- 11oticcd sc~vcl-al longish pans containing Los Angelcs, California. Prior to can. The name Martinez establishes a prc- water in which wrl-t. soaking various sizcs Iiis residency in 1.0s Angeles not ;I sr~llil>tionin peol~le'smindsthat I am Mcxi- of Sl~a~iishsilkworm gut I~cingmatlc rcady qreat deal is known allout him except tliat can and not likely to havr dolie mr~chtrout for tying into taperctl Icad'~-s. Nylon his early school years were lived at Wash- fishing. If solvent, Mexicans brcomc "oltl monofilamc~~ltby this timc had matlr its ington Green, Connecticut, and at some Spa~iishfamilies". I fall somewhere in bc.- advent but many o1dc1- I'islic~rmcn wcrr time thereafter he livrtl in Chicago ant1 for tween being neither one nor the other-'/:I reluctant to trust a "new-fanglrtl" p~-otlr~ct several seasons fished in northern Michi- Spanish via New Orlea~ls.All of which has tliat of'tcl~slil,pctl a wcll-tied Tr~rlcknot. gan on the Jordan and Roardman Rivers. nothing to do with trout fishing". On thc walls thcrc wcbrr pictures-fish. It appears that he attended collcgc in the A visitor to thr Martincz residr~icctat fishc~-m(~n,wiltllifr, and tlic, sccnic beauty east, but it is not known where-or if he St. Andrrws Placc*andI.:igIith Strc~stin 1.0s of Yellowstonc country in all its r~nspoilc~tl gradr~ated.There is a brief refcrc,ncc to Angelrs about 1940 woultl havr felt that splendor. A c1osc.t door, ~)resscdinto his having taken a course in limnology lir was I~eingl~leasantly tl-ans1,orted into scrvicc as a I~ullrtinboartl, tlisl,layrd a under the tutclagc of a Iloctor Nrctlham, anotlicr world and, if he was a fly ticr or a miscellany of snap shots, magazine clip- presumably Dr. J. G. Needham, Cornell fly fisherman, hr would have been en- pings, ant1 1)~11dingo~-tlc,~-s for flies, a University, but to date this can not be chanted. Ilis eyes would most certainly numbrr of thcm \zit11 saml,lc. flies tla~igli~ig verified. A letter written from 1.0s Angeles have been drawn first to several split- 1)rccariously to a friend in the cast tliscloses a sensc of bamboo fly rods, fr~llyassemblc~d and I'erl~al~smost fascinating, liowrver, was humor and a clue to his family I~ackgl-or~ntl: hanging by their tills (to krrp the "set" ;I table with an ortlcrly array of boxc.s of Page 8 coml)lc~tcd I'lic,s I-anging from minisclllc flies \villi tlccc~l)tivc~(,as(% at thr rat(, of olicS tlricss to. I)y coml)ari~on,garg;ltitrlan clic- rvc~yt1lrc.c. or forlr rninl~tc*~.<:a1 1)unl)or. nillr-l)otlic,tl. 1)almcr-hacklctl \vcats. Also. longtime rcbsitlc~nt01' \Vcsst Yc~llowstonc~,lio. tlicrc- ~\~c.rc~stc-c*ll~c~atl pattctrns oti l~c-avy\vircl as a tc-c~n-agvrgro\vitig 111' in 1.0s i\ngc~lrs, I~ooksand stat~(larcl~);~ttcrtl \vc,ts, l~ut \\*asn I'rc*quc~ntvisitor in Mar-tinrz' homc,. mostly tlirrcb ~'(~r(~tlry flic~s-t~uill-l)o(Iic~(l descril)rs th(>ol)cnration in this manncr: variants, sl)itlc~.s,Ili-visil)lcs, hair-wingc~tl "I uscstl to vihit 1)on 1)y t1ics 1iou1-at his \\'rllffs, ant1 mo1.c. for klat-tincsz was a 1.~2.liomc* it1 I!):1I) thrrt 11).12 (Irft for thr \~crsatiltb artist. I)c,spitc* thc variance. in Mnrincls in 1<).1:1)and watch him tics flitas. si~c~ant1 stylc all Iiatl 111~~lr~rnistakal)Ic~ touc.li Ilc, rtsc'tl a Thotiipson li(*nd (in varying of n m;istc,r craftsn~nn. sizes to I'it thct Iiook size) with a chi-omcs 15)' this tinics thr visitor \voultl surc*ly shaft al~out18" long (forcbarm Icngth) with linvc~11oticctl that his nostrils MY'I.~~I)c.ing ;I rul)l)car nut on thc cxntl which hr ~)laccatl ass~~~ltc~tl1)y ihcs ~)c.nctr-atit~gI'r~mc~s of 1)ara- in a 1:" tlccl) tyl)cwl-itc>rril)l)on tin mocmtc-tl tlicl~lo~~ol)cnzc~~ic~ct-ystals so c~stra\~agantly on tht~left arm of his chair-as a "sockc~t." 11sc~Iin that c3ra to \z,artl off attacks I)y I'vc srrn him tic, cli~illctl(11-y flirs, 22, 23, mot11 larvae, on fcwthrrs ant1 flic~s.I)r~t cbvcn cstc., ant1 glanccb at a I~ook(novc.1 or what- tlic 1)ossil)ility 01'rnig1';1inc~\\,oultllia\~c~I)t~t~~i tTc~l-) :Is I><* ~lrocc~c~clccl.'~ glatlly I-iskctl ill cxclin~~gc~for the I-arc Kac, Scl-vatius. Martinez' br~sitic~ssnsso- ~)rivilc,gcaof I)caing nllowc~tl to clntcr thc~ ciatck at West Ycllowstonc~,adds thc follow- salictum of olltb of thcs wol-ltl's I'inc~st Ily ing commc,ntary: tlrrsc.rs. "I lc tlrvrlol)c.tl the, so-callrtl pin visc,. Scatc,tl in an oltl wootlcn tlc~kcI1oi1- in Ile rcmovc.d thch hratl 1~1rt1'1x1111 a toblc. a rc~lasctl,semi-roclinc~tl position was visct ant1 attachrtl a picarc of can(%from an hlartinczz himsc~ll',no~ichaln~itly l'c.c.tling oltl rotl. I Ic cut out tlir rim from a baking v;lriorts matcbrials onto a liook secr~~-c~tlin ~)o\vtltbrcan to]) Ii;~lf\vayat-ortntl so t11t.1-c, thc jaws of a most ttnorthotlox vista. Now. was n place, for thc cant, hantllc, to rest in. thc visitor ~'or11(1lla\rc, l)rc01i1t~ol~livior~s IIe nailtad the* can top to thr arm of n to his sr~l-I-or~ndi~igswhilc IIC- watchctl, \vootlc.~ichair ant1 thus lic cor~ltlspin the cntr:unccd, as clcl't hands workcd quickly vise in thc c:un top and tlir material Iic~was and ~~rccisclyto form cxqrtisitc small dry holding automatically rolled on thc hook. Page 9 Later a metal protlr~ctcompany made tlir trout fly, or to I)? rnorcb accr~~-ntc~,trout vise with a metal rotl, Thonipson I think. lurc. Black is pc~rliapsthr best nt~ml)c~~-." I bought many aftcar liis passing for flyticbrs Thr forerunner of tlic "Woolly Worm". I cml~lovedup hcrck." rcgardlcss of whether this later variation Kay Bcrgman matlt~this I~ric-l'I~rlt was first tied in Montana or Missouri, was interesting obscrvnt ion in his I~ookTrolrl: tlir "Palmer" (Soldier I'nlmc*r, Rrtl Tag "lion M;~rtincsz atlvocatcbs ant1 is 111(, I'almc~r, Grey I'almcr, <;oltl 1'almc.r. Kctl designcr of a liantl visc. Ticars who rlsr tliis I'alnicr, Black I'almer, ctc.), ant1 thr antiq- vise ncctl no othrr tool than a pair of uity of this typc of trout fly construction scissors. anti they ~,rotlucc~flits faster thon is wc.ll c~stal)lisIirtlI,y A. Co11rtnc.y \Villiams I hat1 ofton lirartl that Mnrti11c.z tied tiers using any otlirr mcthotl. This way of ( 7'rolrl Flies, A 11i.scussior1 nrl tl N Dicliotl(rt:l', "\\'oolly \\'or~iis"\vilI~or~t tlitb aitl of a viscb tying is excellent for wet I'lic*s,strc,amcbrs, I!):3l), whcrrin he wrotcb: wllilc lit, talk(atl to ant1 waitcbtl on customers ant1 hacklt* tlrv flirs. Not only that, l)ut "According to Konaltls all 1';llmrrs in his \\'c*st Yc~llo\\.stonc~sl~ol,. k11.s. Rat- you can sit rc~laxrtlant1 coml'ortal)lc in an rc~prcsc~ithairy cntcrl)illars s11e11 as thosc~ Scrvatius, first lady of \\'(%st Yrllo\vstonc~ arm-chair \vhil(~tying, tlir~savoitling thts ofthr Tigrr, Ermines and Fox Moth, all of I'ly fisI1r1-s,who ticat1 flic~sfor Don ant1 1atc.1- fatigue attentling tying f1ic.s at a visc wh(*re which arc better known to most of 11s as \\-asa I)usinc.ss associatc~,had many o~)~x)r- you must sit at a tlrsk, tal~lcor hc~ncll." '\voolly I)c,nrs'. Tlrc I'tiIrr~~ri.s U~I~IOS//hr okIr.s/ Ilri/i.sh ,f!11, It is ;11>1x".c111. . that thrscb vises went thror~glia nntul-al 1)t~riotlof transition ant1 ant1 Izaak \2'alton ~-c-fc-~-sto it in Thc~ "1)on tlitl tic \vllilr \vniting on cns- rcfinrnirnt. The- one with thr 1)aml)oo <:oml~lt,atAnglrr as follo\vs: 'Mr. I I'agc 10 Page 11 - - - -7 11/7/1c7rlc/./: 1101r11111 .~lfrr/l~lr~~.-,~l~.sl~l~ll,y (1 1 ,/ar~~rilc.s/rc~crrrr r~ccrr Il'csl )'c~llort~,slor~c~. / prohnh!\~ir~ tlrc. ccrr!rl 1!)50.s. 7.1,is clrorc~i~rg-rc~tr.s /~rotlrrcctl ctrlisl (;co~:yirrcillacCc~rr*c;\- ,frOllf (1 /lOfl~!\'/J~~II/c(/ /l/lfl/O,~~(~/~/~ ill (111 (I/(/ ~1l~~~ll:il~c~. lbulcr lc/i: ,llnr/irrc: 11'cr.s /~erhct/~.s/he,/irs/ ill his rc9,qiorr /o i.s.srre /~o-iotlichit lle/irr.scthort/ 11 is .slro~/~nrrtl /Ire fislrir~,yirr /Ire irrccl. 7Xi.s orle rr~cr.s .scrr/ /I.\I 1ri111/o I'rc>.s/orr,/c~rrrrirrgs ahou/ ]!NO. Tlrc <;uitlc cr1,so corr/(rirrccltr 11rt1/1 of /Ire cort~r/r\~crr(1rtrrc1 IIre.s/ ~'c~llori~.s/orrc111i111 11 111 1.s or^ Iroit~lo jhlr /lrc rt~cr/c~s. r . . -1) r(y/r/,wi/h ~.rou.se-/'ccr/herrtlirr,p. ulcrc /lei,-/ o/' /!is "I'ic.loria/" III~I.;' /I\' so.ie.s. 7b//rc /c;/'/ (!/' /he lo/>/!\I is 11 "C/rocok~/cI)lrrr, " /lrer~(1 "Gorclorr "(rtli/lr tr hcrir uli~r,y),/he11 cr "Al~rl/i- Hacklt~tlI'crricrrr/" u?i/hcr r~ri.v/~trcc!/or~osi:ctl hrou~rrcr~r tl ,yri::!\l 11crckIc.s.III tAc ccrr 1c.r of /hc qrou/l is (1 "Birch :s I.irr~orile." ulith cr 1rrrr1 of par/ric{~el~acblc~ crhccrtl c!/'i/,sclarker 11rou111 l~crcklc~.7'lrc three jlics irr /lrcfire,yrotrrrtl are "Rcr~oscclCatltlis "/~cr/tcrrrs.ill1 /Ire /lic,.s, /~tzr/ qf /he I'rc*.s/or~,/c~rrrcirr,ys Collcc/iorr, rtlcJrc rlorrcr/ctl lo /he .Ilu.scurrr /I.\* (;cor:yc .S/n,q;y. /~holc~,yrcr/~hcolt rlc~s\' of C.,11. Hcrllc~r. I3y 11153 hr hat1 cal,itr~latctl rompletrly ant1 was now tying what hr call(stl "I-ough watc,r tlrv f1ic.s" with I)otlic*s m;rtlr from caril~orrhail-. T1ic.y \\,c~rc,I,y his own atlmission, mores shaggy a~iclI~r~lky than thc "Iint-facccl Mc1)orrgal" ant1 thc "Irrcb- sistil,lca" aftrr \vhich t1lc.y \\rcrca I';rshionc.tl. IIis ratliral withtlrawal from p~-c\~iarrsly hrltl opinion is npparc*nt in a Icattcr to Ficlcl & S/IPNIII(I!)5:3) in whicl~hc s;ritl: "I gucbssrLrc.ry tlry I'ly rrscr has qrric,tly go1ics ~iutstryingto krcbp his fly floating ill I FISHING GUIDE fast wntrl-. IJsrrally thc I)c.st I-isr takcs ~,lacc, By DONALD S. MARTINEZ at sundown or thcr-c%aftcar.I5y thcn thc linen DON'S TACKLE SHOP West Yellowstone. Mont. is soggy, tlir wrist ant1 hantl arc tirrstl, ant1 There 8s no bcfrur nrvur flrhfng regton8 wllh same experts going to 3X, whxh is wafer af the river channel Wet fl~crbest, it is murtlrr trying to g(,t the fly to float. ~nthe United Slates than the rcct8on w~thtnperhops too hght for safety ~n wet fly firh- boots or wadcrr needed. o radlvr of 100 moles around wer, Yellow- ~ngwhere the flrh overage better than two 2 The South Fork. Turn rqht on Lake Night aftcr night last summer on the, stone Bigger fsrh may be taken during a pound. A coreful dry fly man can get along Shore road Imarked ~8thsognl 4.1 moles West br~efpersod on the 1.11 tn cerfamn Steelheod ~8th3X gut. rarely popp\ng off a fly, but of lorn on I91 as oboue, wherc strolghr lowrr Madison I kept wishing to I lcavrn rovers emptymg onto the Poc~f~c,ond there *#I1lore flaer rlghl along when flrhlng wet rlrclch of hsghwoy ends The stream may are .laces where a oreater number of ftrh wlth gut ftner than IX. However, the bc reached by turnlng off on any of several I had a fly that woultl rcanlly float ant1 that may be caught at fame.. but consderlng the greater number of striker due to the use ride roadr to the left. after drlvlng two miles great varlet" of water. weather cond~fconr. of lhght lcaderr compenrater for the lass of ma the woods Pcrfecl Dry-fly water, trout I coultl scr right up to I'rrll dal-k. beauty of scenery, accernb#l#ty, large over- an occarlanol fly. average I8 ~nchcs. mostly ratnbowr. Hlp age raze of Ilrh, long searon ond mfe wadcng Favorole dry fly potternr nnclude the boots are rulf~c~ent. thl5 dlstncl or wlthaut a peer. There are Adamz. Bwch'r Farorlte, Dunham, Specla1 3. The Penlnrula - 1Yrll. anyway, I nlatlc rrp some flic~s hundreds of mller of large rlverr runnrng Gcnger Quill and the 8,-vtrobler. During the Check d pee do meter as you turn off main bersde the himhwavr. and orher hundredr of monlh of June lana hackled Vartanfr on h~ghway onto Lake Shore Rood Go 4.1 with clippctl caribou hair botlirs alo~ig males of open cater to be reached by rtde a 12 hook work weil, due to the presence mllcr ond turn off Lake Shore Road to your roadr or tradr. Practically all of thlr of the Brawn Drake on the water, but later left. Flrh anywhere around thfr pen8nrulo. the lincss of the, Irrcsistiblr~,l~ut matlc thr water 8% on publlc lond, ellher National Park small flier do betcr. At timer $#re 16s parfo~u#arlyon the Bay. The channel runs or Natsonol Forest, open fo the public. are a necerrnty. south along the eort side of the pofnt. bodics ovcrsizc* so that thc air hcltl in the, Thtr mop or only an out1,ne of the ava,l- As the ex~erlenccdf8rherman knows with- and can be reached by wadlng The rest able flrhmg. It w8Il help you plan your rsdc of the .ooont mov . be fbrhed from shore spongy hair offscst the* wczight of thc hook ltme lo advantage. however Soace does Gray1,ng are taken here at t,mrr. not perm,, a f"lidercrlptlon of each place. 4. Mouth of the Madsron. mtler Where the map ~trelf4s obscure, or the text 3.5 and matlr a positives floatcr. North of town, turn left at Lake Shore Road. 8% not cleor, plrore call on us an the stare Park anywhere about .5 males after leaving far fuller ~nformofmon. Condat8onr vary from Of coursca a I'ly with a I~rrlkyI)otly looks highway Fine run of r1ow-moving water for ,,me to ,,me, a stretch of water that wor elfher nvmohr. . or wct-Hlrr. Hl0h wader.--~ barren ~n June may be excellent on August. needed here. - clrrmsy ant1 I ditln't thilik thry'tl work on It 8% our bur~nerrto keep ported. 5. Crarr Madson River ond turn left 300 yards at tap of grade. Park ~ngrove of prne large, smart fish in rlcar shallow \vatcbr. GAME LAWS freer o half mile west of highway. R,ver To mure contfnued good f~rhing the channel runs along thsr shore of the lake. Specifically, I thought tlicy'tl 1x8 worthlcss authorltrer bolh 8" md our of the Park oc. Boots reousrcd here. Try dry flier or nymohr -..."""It" ~1"s- -. - WZ,P.* .- ' - in the Fir-cholc ;untl in Flat C1-ccsk at Jackson. 1Yyomilig. In thc past wr always rrsctl Ifi's Page 12 and 18's very lightly dressed. Anyway, these of the tiers in the early part of this century Martinez was modest and self-effacing in bulky flies not only worked fully as well it is possible that he did have some formal his assessment of himself and that he knew as the slim-bodied affairs we'd always used education in the study of aquatic insects. a great deal more about trout stream in the past; they worked even better." In one of his letters to Jennings, he said: entomology than he professed to know. Martinez was never an imitationist in "One of the many regrets is the fact One of his clients for whom he often served the generally accepted sense or use of the that I dozed through a course in limnology as a guide once told Cal Dunbar, "Don word-in fact, he had an aversion to what under Dr. Needham. I took it with the studied the bugs in school-he knows them!" he termed "Louis Rhead-ish" flies. He did, vague idea that it might help my trout His experiments (FieM & Stream, June however, in keeping with the thinking of fishing, which it probably would if I had 1953) to determine how a dry fly floating most of our renowned dry fly dressers, try studied harder." on the surface might appear to the trout to produce artificials that had some resem- A thorough reading of other letters in were rudimentary compared to the many blance to the naturals that were hatching this fascinating exchange of ideas between sophisticated scientific studies that have on the waters where he fished. Unlike most these two men leads one to believe that been conducted since, but they do reveal Page 13 an inq~~isitivc*untl ~)racticalmititl. to I)c, onea. It is only l~c~c~ar~sc~t1ic~1-(3 \\-cbrcS Ilr did not I)clicbvc*in pattcarn as l)cai~ig such intlivitluals tI1c.n that so rnr1c.11 gootl of the, r~tmostimpot-tancr in (11-y flies br~t trorlt fishit~gstill rc*~nainsIIOW. confc*ssc~tlthat hc was a "suckcr" for somc- M;u-tine,/ hat1 a lal-gc*clicwtc~lc- ant1 spc-nt "the Adams, ant1 similar flicss colnl~ining ;I great tlc~;~lof liis time, gr~icling"sr~mmc~r" I~rowna~itl I'lymoutli Rock liacklc~s,will fislic~rmrn.I I(, knew rnculv prominewt mew. gcat my votes cbvcb~-yti~nc*." lie, said. II' one3 sr~clias I'islling magazillc, c*tlitors ant1 wads fisliitig ior~rnalstotlay \\.it11 any tlcb- writc.rs-li(t fishrtl often \\.itli Kay I%c~rgnian. grc>cnof I-rgr~larityhe* will oftcw sc~.this Thcre, \\rctrcsotlicrs, too. I)ankc~t-s,c~sc~cutivc~s, same, allrginncc~frcq~lc~t~tly c*sl)rrssc~tl. I lis ant1 c~xl)c~rtfly fisllrrmc~n.For 111cs most own favorite, fly \<.as ones hr callc~tlthe, p;wt lie* likrtl tlic~sc~rncSll ant1 got alol~g "Quill Adams", Ilut which in the, Jackso11 \vc~ll\\,it11 tIic~111,1)\1t tlicr(, \crcsrcotlic*rs \\rllo Ilolc country of \Ifyoming. was callc~tl fo1111tlhim to I)cs ar~tocr;~ticant1 ;~l)rasi\~c~. "\\?hitcraft", so n;umrtl in honor of Tom Sllol) cllstomcsrs .;;lit1 tI1;1t at timess 11cs \\.a\ Whitcraft. tlic tlic~n Sul)c~rintc~ntlc.ntof tlo\\~~irigIitr11tlc3. l lo of ;III~I~~nfric~ntlly. 111 (;rant1 Tcton National I'ark ant1 ;1rdc31it 1e~ttc~r.sto lcsnnings lic~tlc~scril)c~tl sonlt. of dry fly fisherman. l~isc,licsnt.; as "(~l~~l)-l'o(~t(~tIpc.;isa~lt\" ant1 1)uring thc~l!):)O's thc~\c~)rtl "c.o~~st.rv;~- othrrs as "mascl~~c~ratli~igas dry-l'ly fisllc~r- tionist" in rcssl,cct to 11-or11\\.;IS sc~ltlom mc.11". IIi~vingknown the long Ilours ant1 spoken 01- writtcbn in the, \crcstcsrn statvs. ~)rc~s~"rc~w)fttacklc~shop o~)c~ratio~i in \\'e-st pc>rhal)sto a Ic~sscrclxtcnt ill hlonta~lathan Yc~llowsto~lc~mysc~lf I can ~)c~rlial)~~~itlt.r- c~lsc~w1ic~1-ca.Tro~~t \vc*~-c~ large* ant1 n~lmc~ro~lsstar~tl l~c~ttc~r tli;ln most tli;~ttllc,sc- or~tl)~~rsts ;~ndthcl-c was a ~)c~rvasivc~itlca that t1ic.y \vcsrcL~iiost likcbly :~l)cs~.r;~tio~~sof liis tr11~ alw;~yswoultl Ilc. ~\nvoncs\\rho c;~~~glitant1 cliaractc~r. t-c.lrasc~tlfisli was consitlrrc~tlc~ccc~ntric or ;I Ilon h1;11-tine*/left \\'cast Yc*llo\\fstonc- "show-off". Illitlcr tlicsc~circ~rmstanccs it ant1 opcxratc~tl ;I tacklc~sliol) in Jnc.kso11. is cnliglitc,ning ant1 rc~frc~sliingto rcal)ort \\'yo~iiing.tlurilig \\'orltl \\'a~-11, althougl1 what I>on M;~rtincazwrote, at that time- in his shop W;IS ol)c-r;~tetcllor two yc,nrs I)y liis his "Fishing (;uidc~": ~);wtnc~r.Ilacs Sebrvatir~s,a1'tc.r lic~tlcp;~~.tc,tl. "\Ire*arc. ;~Iways~r;~tcful lor t11cs loan of I I(, tlitl not live, a long lil'c,. lx~ssing;I\\.ay an csxccptionally large 1ro11t for (lisplay iri 1.0.; ~\ngc~lcsal)o~~tl!)r)r). 1)11t 11~is \\.c-II pur~)osesI1111 tlc,plorc* contcbsts nntl a~itlI'ol~tlly rc~mc~nil)c~rc~tl in Montana ant1 conipctitions b;~sc,tl on size, or nr~rnl~ct-sof \\'yoming I)otli ;IS an c~sc.cq)tionalfly tier. a fish cnuglit rrgarellcss of mc~thotlscsm- skillful fly l'ishc~r~nan.;~nel an intlivitlr~nl ~)loyc~el.Comlx,tition has no ~,lacc~in trout \ 1'rrlial)s no Amcrican fly lias I)c.come was the Jolin I Iailcy rcfc.rrctl to al)ovcb. As fly IV(~ all kno\cr, \<,it11a \rliitc, wing. IICW- I)cattc~known than th~lioyal Coachrn;~n. a milttcr of cr~riositywea have. rrtaincstl thr cock I~odyant1 brown Iiackl~~." Its name hatl tli(k right coml)inntion of ro- sl)c,llingantl punctrlation as it \\,as in 01-\,is's "I will tc.11 yor~."rxclaimrtlMr. I.. <:. m;lnce and class toap1)ral cbvcbnto notl-fish- IcattcT: Orvis. "that is an extra fi11c. conclimn~~; c>l-mcn,and tlir fly itscalf lias such a com- all tliat scarl(kt makes it qr~itc,magnifi- manding ;1p1)('ar:111cc~t11;rt fcw fishcsrmrn 111 looking through my fly-cast- I ccnt -call it -call it -the roval coacli- can kcbrp from having at Icast onc or two ~II ol'tc~ncall to mi~itlthc history ofc~ach\,a- man!" This sc~c.lnc~dsuital)l(t, so the fly thvir fly 1)oxc~s.Itsqlralitic~sas a fislr catclicr ric~ty,ant1 I somc-times wontlrr if a littlr was christened. Not long after I pr11)- have. 11c.c.n drl)atctl ant1 cliallrngrd. I)r~tits ~iic~rnorantlr~~nof the same, wor~ldin time- lislictl a list of flicks, ant1 inclutlctl thc, market al)l)(>;rlis ~uiivc~rsallyp~-ovc.n. Nu- I~c~comeof intc,rcst. "royal" coachman in the, num1)rr. mc~rousvaria~~ts have* apl)c,arrd ovc,r th(3 Tlic royal coachman mc-ntionc-tl I)y 1.atc.r I rrcc.ivc-tl a 1cttc.r from an ycxars,so tliat thc Royal (:oncliman is no\\. "\\'liitc I Iacklc." was first offcarctl to pur- ;tnglrr in \Vago11 \\'heel Gal). Colorado, actually a family of flirs inclr~tlingwc3ts. ch;~sc~rs11y Ino. It did not, howc~vcr,origi- saying: "I wish you woultl makc a coach- tlricas, ant1 strc-amrrs (vc~yfc,w flics arc*matlc n;ttc, with mc,. l'hc fly-tycr I mcntionrtl man for mc with all the gilt on it ~)ossiblr. in all thl-cr ty1)c.s). long ago sent to me a sample of thc I I)c-liclvc. sllch a I'ly woultl I)c, strongc.1- Tlir gc11(~aIogyoftIi(~ Koyal Coacl~man salnc,. saying. "I liavr jwst br>rn ticbing and I~OI-ctaking." has I)rcw tracc,d 1)c~forc~.through tlir ~vritings some, flies to ordcr for a gc~~~tlrniia~i.I Ie I\'(%tied thct flic,s, making tlic~l~oclyof of T\vc.ntirth <:cxntur\, \\.ritc.~.ssrlc.11 as Jcn- says h(1 likrs the coachman I)c,tter than gilt, witli only a nvck or rrlff of peacock l~ings,Flick, Smcntllcy, ant1 (;ingrich. 71'l~cb ;111yother fly, but lie fintls it vrry frail, lir~rl,ant1 it proved most acccy)tal)le both I)attc*rn has u~ltlcrgonc,conti~~uor~s rc,con- and he wants mr to tie solnc, with retl to thc man for whom it was dcsignctl sitlcsration ant1 rc,vision. so that most ol't11c~ silk in tlic mitltilr, to makr thrm ant1 to tlic fish of Coloratlo. \Ye have modern forms arc distinctly r~nlikrtlir orig- strongc>r,ant1 hc also wants a little sprig matlr many dozcms for that country, and inal. On pagc~ixteenant1 seventec,n we of wood duck fora jib (tail). I send you a it scc,~nrdtoo good a fly not to l)c. added ~)rc~sc~!itI)otIi an original ant1 sc*vc,r;~lof its I'ly to see. I think it qr~itclhnntlsome." to the list, so the"gi1t"coachman received grantlc1iiltl1-c.n. This inclosrd fly hat1 a white wing, a 1)lacc.. .I'hr original is n 11ricclc~sss1)ecimc.n I~rownhackle, 1)c.acock botly, ho~~ndin The rctl-tip coachman ant1 Ic~atl-wing from the M11sc11m'sOrvis Collection. This thr ccnter with rctl silk, ant1 tail of wootl coachmnn Iiatl 1)c.c.n known in the trade fly sc.~-vcdas thc model for the color plate duck feather with the black ant1 wliitc* long I,rforr I rntcrcd it, I)r~tI feel ofthc3Royal Coachman in Mary Orvis Mar- I~ars.I kept tliis fly for some. tiInca, resl)o~~siI)lefor the innovation of the I~ury'sfir~ode Flies atrd Tlreir Ili.storie.s, 1,ul)- showing it to sc,vc.ral 11c~l)lc.One cvc,- royal and gilt coachman, ant1 heres 1ishc.d in 1892. Tllcb Orvis family was inti- ning a nr1n1bc.r wcSrc~atlicrrtl ;rround a confrbs ant1 account for tlic same. matcbly associatrtl with tlir origin of this fa- tal~lrlooking ;rt the flies. My family, mous pattern, ant1 to the I~rstof our knowl- Mr. I lorace T. Ilunn, of California, ant1 This Irttrr apl)carcd in Forest atrd Streattr rtlgo tliis fly was tied I)y Mary licrsr~lf. Mr. I.. C. Orvis, of IInrtfortl, Conn.. on Febrrra~-y5, 1885, so we set. how quickly The. fly scbrlnsto liavcb I)c-c.n origin;ttc>tl wcL~-cBpresent discussing tlica ~)rol)ric&ty tlic Royal Coachman wkrs rcavisctl. I,y a ~)ro~~ii~lcntNvw York co~nrnci~-cia1fly of c,vcbry fly having a namc,, n~umbers It ap1w;tred in I)oth trout and "lake" tier named Jolin IIailry. According to givil~gthcm littleor no intlivicluality. I versions in the. Orvis-Chchney I~ookfish in^ Mary, writing it) firtlorite Flies, IIailry tlr- saitl. "I3r1t what is one to do? I do not with the Flv in 1883. Thr one ~,rrsentedon velol)c,d the pattc>rn in 1878. Within a fc>w ~~o~)osc~to ~larlic,flies. Wc havc too many page sixtc.cn was listed as a "I.ake Fly" in years it was well c.nough known tliat Charles names alreacly." "\I1hy not?" say they. Marbrrl-y's 1892 book. According to IIarold Or-\~is.Mary's fathcrand onc-oftlic leading "If you make i~ new combination nameb Smecllry, in F!v Pattertts atlcl Tl~eirOrt'ins tackl(b tlealers of thr clay, was moved to it. E:lsc, it will 11c~vc.rI)c popular. No onr (For~rthrtlition, 1950). it was first tied as a wrritcl to Forest atrtl Streal11 witli a tlctailrtl cat1 rc.mcmber to distingr~islif1ic.s bv fan wing tlry fly by thc famous Catskill fly l~iographyof the* fly. \Ye reprint the rc.1~- n111n1)rrs; they gcat confrlsrti. A name ticr Theodore Gordon. If the fan wing \rant portions of his letter I~c.lo\v.\\'c I~cgin fixes a fly in your mind." "Well," I an- was ~~eccdrdI,y sonic othcr type of floating in tlir ~~iiddleof his letter, which was in swc>~-,"thatmay br; I)ut look, hrrc is this pattern, wr have not seen mention of it in part a rc,sl,onsc to a~lotherI;orc~ztcrtrdStrecrtt~ fly, a handsome fly; it is similar to a print. f Iavr any of our rcaders: correspondent wliosr pen narrnc. was "Wliitr coaclima~~,b11t it is not a coachman. According to Smedlry, ordo don thought IIacklr." The fly ticr that Orvis mentions Therr is I~uto11e coachman; tliat is the thc. fish took the fan wing Royal Coachman for a flying ant, but apparently Gordon a brown rather than a white wing and in body with a green band in the middle. The changed his mind about this. Writing to having a tuft of peacock her1 only at the Lady of the Lake had a her1 body with a sil- fellow fly tier Roy Steenrod in 1914, Gordon end of the body rather than both fore and ver band in the middle. So did the Shad said "What the trout takes R. Coachman aft of the red silk band, but in gross appear- Fly. The Marston, a bass fly, had a white for, when fished dry, I cannot imagine. I ance the two patterns are similar. chenille body with a silver band. The do not use it, except water is colored, but The tufts are interesting in other re- Mather had a her1 body with a lime-green lots of men do, and kill with it." Gordon spects. Nowadays, with the exception of an band. was perhaps the first angler to resist using occasional attempt to imitate the egg sac of Banded and tufted patterns were equally this colorful pattern because it just didn't some insect, very few fly patterns feature a common in the Orvis-Cheney book Fishing look like anything; many later anglers had butt that is larger in diameter than the with the Fly of 1883, so it's difficult to tell the same problem with it. body. In Marbury'sday it wasdifferent.Fa- how much influence the very popular Royal Gordon wasn't far off in his suggestion vorite Flies and Their Historaes shows nearly Coachman had on the development of other of an ant imitation; in some ways the Royal thirty patterns with a tuft of her1 or chenille patterns. It is interesting, though, to see Coachman wasn't a bad imitation of the at the butt; many of these patterns had a that all of the tufted or banded patterns, prevailing ant imitations of the time. The similar tuft at the shoulder, differing in which were quite common then (more than Red Ant pattern in Marbury's book dif- appearance from the Royal Coachman only ten percent of the patterns in Marbury's fered from the Royal Coachman in having in color. The Royal Governor had a her1 book), have virtually disappeared except Page 16 photographs by Don Gray I 1 for the Royal Coachman. Below it is a fan wing version tied by George fly tied by John Alden Knight, author of The Marbury pattern itself is slightly Parker Holden, author of Streamcraft and several well-known fly fishing books in the fancier than modern versions, having a ta- The Zdylof the Split Bamboo. Holden was re- 1930s and 1940s and originator of the pered tag that is rarely seen today. Also, cently written about by Hoagy Carmichael Solunar Tables. most modern tiers use golden pheasant in the Fall, 1981 issue of The American Fly The Jennings, Messinger, and De Feo tips rather than wood duck for the tail. Fisher. His Royal Coachman was probably patterns are part of the Preston Jennings On page seventeen we present a samp- tied in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and the Collection donated by George Stagg. The ling of later Royal Coachman patterns, all Jennings flies were probably tied in the Holden version was given to us by Katha- dries except fora single wet fly. The wet fly 1950s. Next to the Holden fly is a fan wing rine Holden, and the Knight fly was a recent was tied by Preston Jennings, who did much by the famous Charles De Feo, a master gift from John Rockwood. to repopularize the pattern when he sug- salmon fly tier and artist. We don't have a The Royal Coachman continues to gested its probable similarities to thezsony- date for this one, but it was probably pro- evolve and adapt. There are many varia- chia mayflies, a suggestion heralded by duced in the early 1950s. Above it is another tions besides the ones shown here, and we Arnold Gingrich, who published Jennings's fan wing, this one tied by Joseph Mes- hope that some day someone will take the theories in "There is a Royal Coachman," singer, the West Virginia tier who devel- time to produce a thorough catalog of pat- an article in Esquire in 1956. Below the wet oped the Irresistible. Above it is a spent terns, including regional favorites and fly is a fan wing version, also by Jennings. &ing (with double hackle-point wingsjdry patterns that have faded from view. Page 17 John Shaw of Drumlanrig and the natural history of Atlantic salmon, 1840 by Alec Jackson Thc importances of John Shaw's of salmon attaincstl smolt size. ant1 tl(.partc~tl gcbnc,ral, anel 01 1)oc.t I logg in ~~artic.ular."' work can I)(, I)c,st illr~stratcdby a tho rivers, in lavol- of the* oc.c5ans, a 1c.w I'rot'c~ssor James \\'ilson tlc~sc.ribcsatti- not(- found in \Vrstwood ant1 Satch- wc~,ksa1'tc.r Iiatchi~lg.(:onscqucntly. at- tutlcs at th(t times Joli~lShn\v pc*t-l'orrnc~lhis ell: "Mr. Shaw's c~xl~c~rimcnts,chic~f- tc-nll)tsto ~)rotc,c.tsalmon wc5~-c,conlountlctl c.xl)(~rimc.ntsant1 likcnns natr~rnlhistory ly u~idcrtakcnto c~stablishthe, itlcn- since, par" wc~'cnot co~~siitlc~rctlsalmon ant1 writcbrs ofthc. (lay to a flock 01 sh(~*~):"15~1 tity of thct parr and salmon, wcsrcB tllcsir unrc~strictc~tlslauglitc*r was allowctl. (to tligrcsss again lor a momc.nt) w~-itc-rson Prior to John Shaw a few intlivitli~als this, nntl innumcral)lc. ot11c.r su11jcc.t~.may Grc~atBritain."l atltl by \Villiam Scropcs's tlitl rccog~~izc~that parr wcro young saln~on; 111. lik(bncstl to a 1loc.k of sli(~.p. . . Now your words: "Mr. Shaw's ingenious cxl)c,~-imcwts among tIi(~11i.William Sc~ol)cbant1 the pocSt 'me11 wat writc*s' arcLjmst ~,~-c.ciscslyanimals havc latcly hat1 a vcry witlr circulation: Ji~mcssIIogg. Willi:um Sc~-opc,c.onclr~tl(~tl. of this tl(~sc.ril)tion.I)aring (we fear ant1 but still I have. tho~~gl~tit propcr to make tchnycnars I~c~fo~-c Joh~i Shnw's c~xl)crimc.nts, mourn), that their (,oats arc far mores thrc>atl- a vcry short abstl-act of thrm, as they arcs that I);lrr wc'r(>young s:dnlo~i."Two ycsal- bare., thc.msc~lvc~smores gar~ntant1 grim. of too grcat importance to I)(, omittc,d in 11clo1-(5 John Shaw's c~xl)o~-irnc.ntsJnmcss ant1 tlirir other habits ratller those‘ of fl(.(-(.- any publication relating to salmon. . . . I Iogg c~xprcssc~tlthc, opinioti that pnrl- were ing tha11 I)c>ing ll(~~.c~tl.T1ic.y lor a time. For the scic,ntific ant1 succc~ssfulc.xpcs~-i- youlig salmon and, as AI(~xliusscl informs (ant1 many timcbs) compose conluscdly someb mrnts of MI-. Shaw, the Krith mc,clal was us, was I-itliculc~tl:". . . 1)t-cviol1sto the, t1cc.i- li~~tltllc*tlstatcvncnt, of which oncn 1)ortion awarclcd to him for the. bic~nnialpcariotl ol sivc cxpc.ri~nc>nts,Jamcss I Iogg, the Ettl-ick knocks thr othrr clown, a~itlthe, sl)rcatl of 1838 and 1839; it is of gold, nncl ol' thc. in- Shc~)Ii(~rtl,gave th(5 world sonic. vcLrygootl knowlc~tlgclooksc.xtrc~mcly thin, till somet- trinsic valur of sixty gltinc>as."' I-ctasonsof his own for holtling the) 1)ar.r to on(, boltlcbr or mol-c tlcspc~-atethan the rcbst Bcforc, John Shaw's cxl~c~ritncntsmost II~the, young ol' thc, salmon. . . . This (or tlrivcn Ily fc~aror hr~ngcr),makcss a natl~rnlistswcLrcs of thc, opinion that parr howc-ve~-,had little- cvl'fc*ct,1)e~yontl raising ;I sudtlc-n spt-ing :.ul)wat-(ls into the worltl of wcxrc a tlistinct sl~c~cic~sant1 that the young crop of jokrs about the liccnsr of pocts in inlagination, w1ic.1-c-he invc,nts a ror~ndrln- varnished talr of circumstantial truth, . . . Away go the* otht~rstliro~~gh that glorious gap; . . ."' But of Johti Shaw he) says: "Rut thrn comc3sa sturdy ol~srrvc~ractr~ally with his c5ycBsopc,n, ant1 finds that if hc choosc~s to ~~sc.thc-m lic can see2;so hr hicbs him to thc wood (that Dirkrn Shaw is sincwy, tough. and strong), cuts his rod, ant1 laying about among th(. 'contributors,' hc, 'whips thr offc~ndingAdam out of thcm' ill Icass than no timck-ant1 stating tho siniplc truth to the discomfitrd ~)liilosophc~rs,he broatlly A fine steel c~:,yrnt~i~r,y/):rhlishetlin The British .A11gl(>r'sMi~tl~tal. 0.1, 7'. C. H?flu~~cl, i~r1X1!). Tlroirgh his illu.slr~i/io~:.sulo-c .su/)crhlv/)rotlucrtl. Hoflo~rtlotherulisc /ollorc~etl111c ercc111/~1~ of ~~rat~r~/i,shi~r,y ulrile~s (!/ /hc lillrc. tclho .si111/11vqi1olr(l ~rrrII'rrri~ri1er.s 01: sul~jeclsliikerrcr/urul 11isIot:v;Ire uccepletl ecrrlier re/~orts!/la[ scilr~ro~t Irtrtcl~ ill April or ,W1111 rrr:tl ule(~hscrlc~~ po:r~rcls h-1' Julv. Page 18 illr~stratcasthe diffrrrnccs bc3twcc.n what Wortlsworth calls 'A Fact ant1 an Imagi- nation'." Alcsx Kusscl has rc~cordrtlhow many rcbacted. "Amidst all thrsr sc.lf-satisfied, and only self-satisfictl theorists, Mr. Shaw- hcatl-krcpcar to thc. 1)ukc ol' Br~rclruchat Drumlanrig Castl(a-appc,arrd, in 1836, with his mcsasuremcnts,his ~~latcas,and his tlatcs, thr rrsr~ltsof careful and rcspc.atr~tlcxl>cari- mcnts-and almost instantlv thca whole tribr trlrnc~don hiln as a common rncmy."Wnly after thc Stormontfir.lcl ckxl~rrimrnts,re- portcktl by William Brown7 and Kobcrt BuistH, did John Shaw rc-ccaivr somr of thc rcscognition hc clr~sc~rvcd. John Shaw's c~xl>c~rimc~ntsshowc~tl that parr arc th(>young of salmon which, two ycal-s after hatching, I>c.c.omc-smolts ant1 Iravc. thr rivc.1-s in favor of thc. occans. I lis c.xlwrimc~ntswcbrc, rcbportcvtl in thrc~c~palwrs. The first two wc3rcspublishc.tl in Tllc Etlirr- hrei-qh &err, PAiloso/~hicnl,Jourr~nlin 183(i%antl 1838."' Thr thirtl, thr most coml,l(~tc~ant1 7'11;s r11np of the fnr~rous '~~.shrfNrrrl"nt Storrr~orttf~eld,orr the Rir~erfirv, where Shaul i u~~rkulns r~ir~tlicatetl,a/~/~earetl ill 1111 rrrticle or1 '%'i.sh-Culture irr Atrlericcc " irl Il~~r~wr'sNcwMonthly Magazine irr A'OI~CI~I~~C1868. 7'0 quote fro111the article, "The u~aterso~rrceof these /,or~tlsis (I rrlill- race (A), u~hicllrurls parnllel to the rirvr 7'0.1, nrrdn fell1 hu11clret1~arti.Fdi.st(~rrt,/Po~r~ it. The filterirl~-/)or~d(Ij) arid t11e hatchirr,q-/1o11t1or boxes (C) are built r1earh.v ill a shaderlgler~, atlti co~lrlectedulith the 111ill-strea~r~hv (I sluice (hf)so nrrnr~g-erlso that the su/)pIv of ulnter c(er1 he rgulatetl. " Tlre u~ccterirlg/rou,qh (L) distributed the ulater to the 11retchi11,q hoses, 180 ill 11uir10er,eaclr bei11,qtrcw feet Rl VER TAY - sqlrare nrld three ir1che.s tieep. 7'lre /ro~r,ql~ (F-T-Gj serrlecl lo release ulnler arltl srrlolts lo tile reswtloir (I))frorrr which Oo/h ulere released as rlesirerl hack to the I(ir1er 11in trough (P-I-R). Page 19 thrrs most intcrc~sting,was ~~rrl~lish(~tlin th(a J'orlng to lhc*cbstc-nt that ~\ntlrc*\vYoung's al~orrtth(, origin of I'latcs (i; no wontlchr 7'rrr11.sclclio11.sof l/rc~Ro\l(lI .Soci('l,\' o(Et1i11hur;q/~ narncbac~c.oml~ar~ic~shis own on th(.titlc. pages sincc. hc c,ol)icatl it from John Sha\v, a man in 18-10, having 1)c.c.n I-c~atlI)c~l'o~-c~ t11c. So- ol 7%~/look Of 7%c Strltttot~.~~.I'liis \zrirs ir whosc. \crork hc, ~~roI'c~ssc*sto have. rc-jcsctc.tl- cicly on I)c~c.c*ml)c.rIfi. 18:lll." It contains surprisir~gchango of tlirc.ction. c2sl)c~cially hartllv tl~c*act of an honc>stauthor. on(, srrl)t~rl)c.olorc~l ~)latc. (r-c.pro(lr~cc~I 11~-I-(- \vhi~nc,onsitlc-rcstl in th(~light of \vhnt i\lc.s Ktltvartl I;itzgil)l>or~closc-s his c11al)tc.t- ant1 showing thc. tlc.vc~lol)mc~ntof salmon Krlssc~lt(,lls 11s: "Mr. Yor~ng'sc.vitl(-ntr., ho\z.- on thcs natrrl-al histol-y of the. salmon with: from ova to ages two yc3ars)at I(-ast c,clual in cLvc5r.was to o grcsat c.stcnnt vitiate-tl by two "i\ vcnrygrcsat cSr-rorcssists somc~\vh(~rc~.Is it clrrirlity to thosc. forrntl in \\'illiam Yan-c*ll's c.auscbs. IIc. l'ailt.tl to gives an atlc~cluatca oursor Mr. Shaw's?l'imc~willtc.II.""'Timcn long rc-c.ognizc-tl mastc-~-l)ic.c.c-of I8.3!l.l~ In ncc.orr~ltof the- co~rditionsuntlcsr which his tlicl tcbll. Tim(%has jr~tlgc~lJohn Shaw to atltlition to lohri Shaw's illrrstrations th(.r(, c-xpc*rini(~tits\vcbrcs ~rt-ric~(l on -t11(- t.onst~-rrt.- "the. c.nil)csror ~vhol'orrntl Iiomcb 1)ric.k and iu.cbotl~c~ro~~tstancIingcolorc~tl1)latc.s in salm- tion ol'th(8 ~)orlcls.thc* (,arc. takc811 to prcBvc.nt Ic~l'tit nlarl)l(-" si~lccs,;IS the- opctning I)assagcL on litc~~-atu~-c~that \\~~r(~ 1)rc'l)atxstl using sl)c-c,i- th(*mixing of 111-ootls,thcs constaricy of the. from <:llal)t(sr I of \\I.I.. (:altl(-rwootl's I,ook nlcsnsc~ollc.ctc.tl 1)y him: lorcbxaml)l(*.a plat(% \z.atch kc.l)t ovc,r tlic~g~-owth; ill shol-t, hc~ 7%~I.;fi 01 7%~SNII~IOII sirys: "1'Iic~ Stor-. in \\'illiam Sc.rol)cs's I1ook1'~(showing that omittcstl c-vc-I-ythingtthat rc-ntl(*~-c-tlMr. montfic.ltl c~sl)c-rimc~ntson thc, Tay, al- when n smolt's sc.nIc~sarc. t.c.rnovc.tl. t);rrr Sha\v's contr-il)rrtions to thc. clrrc-stion valu- though t1ic.y at first gnvcs t~c-wvigorrr- to marking can 1)cs scbcbn) ant1 somcbol'thc. mag- al)l(. ant1 intcarc-sting. On onc3sitlc-, the-rc~l'orc~, thosc- who tlisl,c~lic.vc-tl Sllaw, rrltimatc.lv, nificcwt scba-trout ~)latcas~)rrl)lishc~tl I)y Sir \vcLhaves the. c~vitl(~tic.c~of an c8xl)c-1-imc,ntc.r. a1'tc.r th(- long tlisl)utcb tlc*scril)c~tlI)y Kussc.1 \\'illiam J:u-tlinc~.'.I who toltl us minrrtcbly all lit, hatl tlonc.; ant1 in his I~ookon the, salnion, bc~(~nrii(~a vintli- (:onsitlrring the- iml)orta~lc,c.of John otr th(. othc*r-. the- c~\.itlrricc~ol an c-x1)c.l-i- cation of the 1)rumlanrig results . . ." Sllnw's c~xl,c~rimc.nts,ant1 thc~clrrality of his mcsntc,r who tlcsclinc.tl to tcsll anything brrt illustrations, it is tlil'l'ic.rrlt to c8xl)lain why that h(0 hat1 rnatlc, c~xpc.rimc~nts.Furthc~~-, his work is not 1)c~ttc.rknowti totlnv. I'ossil~lv Mr. Young hatl, rathe-r otltlly ant1 unluckily, sonic, autliors ofc.ornc.rstonc*\vo~-ks in salm- tolcl th(* Royal Soc.ic*ty of F.'.tlinl)r~rgh.in on litcwtrrrc. shorrltl 1,cs I~lamcbtl.Thc~ir oniis- 18.13, thirt 11~.'cntirc-ly agrcscbtl' \\,it11 Mr. sions, cLrrorsant1 lack ol' honctsty rol,l)c,tl Shaw; \vhilst the* c.xl>c.r-irllc-ntson \\.hich Iic John Shaw of thcs rc~cognitiontlrrc. him. fountlc*tl his srrl)sc~clrrc~ntlyc.xl)~-c~ssc~l tlis- ?'his point can I,(# illtrstratc~tlI)y rc~l'(~rcwt.c. agr-c.cbrncs~1twit11 Mr. Shaw, \rrc,rc. matlcs in to Ktlwartl Fitzgil~l)on's7%~ Ilook 0f 7%~. 18.1 1 ,"l!l Scll~tro~r,long ac~knowlc~tlgc~tlits onc. of the. This c.hang:-c, of (lit-vetion raises clucss- most importotlt works to 11-cat its sul)jcc.t tions al~or~tthe, jr~tlgmc~ntant1 motivcss of irntl rnuc.11 ~)rizcntlI)y c.ollc~.tors.fi Etlwnrtl Fitzgil)l)on. Was 11~s in somcs way In 18-17 Etl\vartl Fitzgil)l)on ~~rtl~lisli(~tltrying to ~-c.payhis I'ric*ntl Ant1rc.w Yorrng . ~ ...... ,I Ilrr~rtlhook 11 ~c,qIitr,qant1 incIrrtlc.tl in it 1.01- thc, salmon fishing hc- hat1 c-njoyc-(1on .S~/III~II((;Ii~sgo\v: 1~110111iis hlrirri~y. IX(i2). th(, rc,sults ol' John Sha\v's c-xl)c~rimc~~~ts.l~~thc~1)rrkt~ ol'Srrth(~rlancl's watt-I-? Aftcbr all, "ol)c*rt l%uist(I'c-1c.r (11 tIi(- 1'001s) 7'11c .Str,r- 1'~-tin 185017 lit- rcsjc~ctc~lJohn Shaw's I'intl- Ant1rc.w Young tlitl managc2 thr 1)ukc~'s ii~oii~fic~l~ll'i.ccic~tlIr~r~~l k~.~p(~i7iir(~irl.c (E(litiI)t~rgll: FA- ings ontl c~ml)racc.tlth(> itlc,as of Antlrc-~z, I'ishc~ric~sant1 Ktlward Fitzgibbon tlitl enjoy monstoli i~ntlI)ougI;~s. INifi). sporl on this Shin. yTo1111 Sliil\v. "I\II /\cro1111t01 So111(*Exl)(.ri- rnvr11\ ant1 01)w.rv;itions OII tllc. I'arr. ant1 on the, Tlierc~arc3 thrc~,colorc~cl ~)latcas in Tlrc Ova 01 rhc- Salniol~.I'roving thv I'iirr to Ix~tl1(. nook 0f7%~ Sah~ro~r which show thc. tlrvc.lol)- Yorrng ol tIi(. Salrnot~."7'11c k~(liiihrri~y/r.Y(rot I'l~ilo- mcsrlt ol' thcs salmon from ovrrm to smolt. .so/~/li~~ll/~llllr1lllI (\lo\, xx I, I X:$(i), I'latcs (i(facing page, 220) contailis fivc. l'l~ol~t~SIli~\v. "I~.s~)(~ri~i~(~r~t\ oli t11~l)c~v(~lol)- illrtstr-ations: mcsrit nncl (;rowtIi 01 Ill(, I:I-y 01 lhc. S:tlmon Iron1 I. Ovum thc (lay bc~forc*I)caing hntcllc-tl thv Esc.lrrsion ol thc, Ovt1111to t11(~i\ge ol' S(*\.(*tl Rlont 11s." 7%~Edirr hrri: The Yellowstonr I-cgion was rlscbtl until thr latc 1860s and early 1870s. Bcwrlsc, Ic~fttlic park, ill 1918. Ycllo\\rstonc. was a by native Americans for tliorlsantls of a fcx\v itiipo~-tali1expc~dit ions IIC~W~~CII srcrlrc, part of t1ica Amcrican vacation scciic~.' 'I[! 'I[! of ycnrs beforr Erlrol~canman IX(i9 alitl 1871, thc wo~itlcl-sof tlic Ycllo\z.- In its fil-st tcn yc>al-s.Yrllo\zrstonc. rc- arrivccl. Archeological evitlcncc of stone platca~lbc.came mores witl(,ly known. cc~ivcdlcss than 10.000 visitors. Until I88:1 , fishing is comnlon arorlntl Yrllow- A frw c.ntliusiastic intlivitluals cnml)aignrtl 110th Iirltiting ant1 I'isliitig wcarc3~)c~~-rnittc>tl stone, Lake; I,el'orcx native, Amcsri- to have, thc are2 set asidc as n fc~tlcral bcci~lsct1ir1-cb \\.as no otlicr I)I-actical \vay - Ji Llis acqt~irecl~iorsrs and wcBl-c. ~~rvx~-vc,a1ic1 in 1872 'Pcllowstonc~1)c~carnc. to I'CYYI visitors. Iw ~)r.oplr often an important part of thrir- daily tlic-t. noticc.tl, 01-c;lrcd, ancl tliosc tho1 tlitl soon allow park managers to I~anhunting (hunt- The first known wliitc* mew appcarcbtl re-alizrtl that tlicrc~\vel-r grrat tlisagrr~cs- ing hat1 I)rcomc- I-ntlicr al,rlsivc~ I)y thrli). in tlic Ycllowstonc re-gion shortly al'tcsr mcnts over just what thr arcs was I)c*ing .At 111' samc timc., fisliing was rcastrictccl to 1800, searching for I)eavc-r. Thcy wc,rcb ~)l-escl-vc.dfol-. Commc~~-rialintrrcbsts. in- spol-ting mcalls, cxcc.l)t for a fc.\\s comtiics~-- followetl I)y an assortment of trnl)l~c~rs. clrlding railroatls, frequc~titlyc;urnc~ near cia1 fislic~rmcnwho ~)rovitlrclliotc~l gucsts ~~~-os~~ector&antl nclvc~ntul-vrs, but 1.01-ma1 to doing serious rcologicol daliiagc~to tlic \z,itli 11-out tlinne.l-s. Cotiimrrcial fisliitig explo~-ationof the ~~nrkarea tlirl not occur !):Irk i\ lack of law cnforccmcnt (intlc-r-tl,a continrlctl until 1!)17. lack of low itself) rcsultcd in widc~sprcatl \\'II~.IIthe 1)urk was c~stnl~lislic~tlal,orlt vandalism ant1 poaching. The, park strug- forty 1)c~rc~11tof its arcsa \\,aI)arrc.11 ol fish glctl along with littlc or 110 I'undil~gfor lil'cb. Vcry quickly, park atlministr-ators This article i.~repritr fed ulitll //re puhlivho.:~ lo~~rtc~c~tiyears. c~xl)rcwctlan intt.1-cst in dcvc~lo~)ingfislilcss per~~rissioi~,ft-ott~ /l~e hook Frrsliwatcr A turning 1)oint occurrctl in 188(i, wht~n watcars to ~)rovitlcatltlitional sl)ort. I;ish Wiltlcrness: Ycllowstonr. Fishes ant1 thr. I1.S. Cavalry \c7as assigncbtl to grtal-tl cultrlral tc~clil~iqrlc~s\\,cbrcb sol)llisticatrcI Thrir World, I).v,/ohtr I). l/arlev and Pal11 thc park. Tl~cCavall-y took this rlnusunl cnougli ill tlir 1880s to allo\v fish to I)? Schullerv, to he f)uhlished it1 flre sf>ritl,qof assignment srriorlsly. and I)rouglit ordrr brought from a~iywlicrcin tlic country. In 1.982 hv the Yelloulsfo?reLihra~:~ and hluseurtr and discil)linc to the young ilistitution. ISXI. Sul)c~rintc~ndc~titNorris, ignorant of as so cia riot^, Yellou~stot~rI'ark, ~vo~~rit~g, 7'licy 1)att-ollrd the, roacls, fought I'irc~s,nntl tlics 1)ractical aspcscts of fishr~ric~swork, 821.90. arrc.stc.tl lawl~reakrl-s.I3y tlic time the, army stlggestc.tl that earl) I,c stockctl in park Page 22 O/)/)osi/c: the l!)Ol Yellozc~.sto~leE.\-/~cililio~r o/ t/le 11.S. Co~~i~~lissr'o~~c!f Fish trlrtl /.sheric.s, co~~t/)letezclith boo/ trailer. /)ho/o cotrr/c.s-11of the 1i.S. Fi.sh cr11rl M'ilillife So-tlice. waters. IIe was unable to establish them, I)rlt lit, clitl nccoml,lish tlic first rccordccl fish stocking in the park w1ic11,tliat same vcar. lic movc~clsomc c~~ttliroattrout from T~-orltI.;lkr to scavcl-nl nc-nrl~ypontls. Other castla1 nttcml)ts at stocking wwrre matlc during tlic IXXOs, hrlt it wasn't until cnrly in the army atlministl-illion thnt sc>riotls fishrrics work was untlrrtakrn, Captaiii Frazic.1- 12o~1tcllc,in cli~u-gc>of the 1x11-kfrom I880 to 1891, commc~ntctlon tlic arca's potc~ntinl: "In passi~igthro~~gli thc~ I'ark I ~~oticcd with surl)risV thc 1)nrrc~iincssol most of thc watrr in the I';I~-k.Brsitlcs tlic I~c~autifr~l Slioslionc~;~ntl otl1c.r smallel- 1itkc.s tlirrcb ;II-cblit~~iclrc~cls of ~iiilc~s of :IS fi~ic,strra~iis :IS any in cxistcncc. w,itliout ;I fish 01 i111ykincl . . . I lio~)c. . . to see, all of tlicsc~uratrrs so stockc~tlthat tlic ~)lc~asr~rc~-sc~c~kcrin tlir I'ark can enjoy tint, fishing witlii~~o !'cs\v rotl\ of any 1iotc.l 01-camp." -I'Iir t1.S.Fish (:ommission I)egali lic~lcl- \vork in Ycllo\\~stonc-ill IHH!), ant1 tcnll ycanrs 1atc.r ~~c~rc~ol)c,rnting a fish crlltr~~-alstation 011 Ycllo\vstonc I.akc. It was thr I)c,git~ning of a gigantic hatchcry ol)c,ration tliat in thc nsxt fifty-scvc,n ycal-s worlltl yic~lcl818 million trout cBggsfor use in othrr wratcl-s (mostly outsitlr Yc~llo~vsto~~c~). Tlic Fish Commission also ~~ntlcrtook major su~-vc~ysof the, park's still-1)rimitivc. ccoaystcms, and ;I wc~altli of k~lo\vlctlgc rcs~~ltc~tl,giving managers sountl acicwtific information aborlt Yrllowstonc~'~fish srv- cl-al tic-cad's I)rforc, they hat1 s11ch i~iforma- tion i~l~orltot1ic.r park animals. Fishing in Yrllo~~stonc~was I'ul)r~lor~s. In IX07, the follow in^ account of fishing at Ycllowstonc I.akr outlrt (near I)rc2srnt Fishing Bridgc~)al)lxs:w(~(l in tlir Otvrl(r1it1 12lor1thl11: "Ws iuncliorctl ollr I~oatin tlir currcsnt, and com~iic~ncc~tlcatching fish oti our flies as fast us wc could 1i:unl the111 out. We caught two ant1 thl-c,e at a time, ant1 they all wrigh'tl al~o~~ta porlntl. 111 an hour ant1 a half wc cau~httwenty-~~inc fish that wc~ighcda littlr ovrl- thirty po~~ntls.Tlicrc were so many fish thnt thcrcs was no gl-cat ~)least~rcin catching tlicm; it was all too wc,re establishrd in Goose I.akc near thr Phi1etu.s Kol-ris, Su/,erirlte~lrle~rtof easy . . . Firrholc River. Black I~asswcSrr introduced Yellou~sto?lcPark fro1111877 to 1882. Tlir goal of park managers was to have into tlic (gibbon River :uid several small co~~tlurtctlthe fin/ i~ Page 23 fishcric~smanagemcut operations wcrr rxl~atitling.In 15115, about five million eggs wet-r tnkrn I'rotn Yellowstone. I~kctrout. The cggs werea tlistribr~tc~daroutltl then country, and thc park was cstal,lisl~ingits rcprttation as thr worltl's foremost cutthroat YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. trout factory. .-- .-- At al~orttthe- same tinlc. there al,l,rarctl Tltr pl*et;fic.st~)lncc in. fh~Rorhy ,&fo~~ntccin,.s,nnrl ,jrcstl!l cclr- the first wortls of concern about thr qr~ality I)r*mfer7for r,rcr?Irrch Tro7it Ikish.in,$ in close pro.cimity. of fishing. The. rxccssivc~take of cggs, the* high crrcl limits (twenty fish a day), ant1 ?$.-+-f+** the growing nr~mbcrof visitors took thcir Excellent AGCOI~I~O~~~~DUSfor Tourists and Travelers, toll. In 1919, the Sr~l~rrintrndentrcbl~ortetl *---b that stocks of trout in Yellowstone Lakr Thr Petl-ified Forest nnx? To1r:c.r Fn7ls, trvo of the ~no.stinfer- hat1 brrn helprtl by I-ecrnt plantings and sermctl to br rc,tr~rningto their "formcr estinz frntu,roe of tho Pnrk, rutthin ~~lnllcingdistnrwe. abundance." 111 a blindnc~sstypical of tlic time, hc suggostrtl that thr "elcl)rcdations J. F. YANCEY,Proprietor. of ~~elic:uis,grtlls, ctc.," had 1,cc.n respon- siblc for thr rctl~tcetlnrtml,ers of fish. Managrrs werea unwillitlg to I-ecognize that fish atid 1,irtls liarl corxisted, in healthy n~tmbc,rs,for countlc~sscc~ntr~rics in Yellow- stone, atid that white man was the only new factor to he considered. In 1921 an eminent fish I)iologist notetl that "lat-gcr fish" were only fount1 in acccssil~lrwntrrs in the park.? In the I!12Os and 1<13Os, Ycllowstonc- fishing bec:~rnc~c-vcsn moreLf'amous. Though thr fishing was not as goocl, ant1 though thcrr wcBrr 220,000 visitors in 11130, thr park still offer(-tl fr~rbc,ttc~t- sport t11;ui many othrr more liravily fishrd I-cgions. But marc, t11;111 tllc' C]ll;lljty 01' fishing was changing in Ycllowstotlc. In 191(i, the National Pnrk Services was crcbatcd to administrr thr growing family of national parks. Thc nr\r set-vice I'acctl a cl~allet~gi~~g mandi~tc.ill tli(3 Nntiotl;~l1';rl-k Svrvire Act: "The, Scrvicr thus c~stablisIic*tlsli:~ll ~xot~lotcatid I-rgulatcl thc usc of Frdcsral areas known as parks, Inonunicblits. ant1 reservations 11creinaftc.r sl~ccific~tlby such IIIC>;IIIS ;111cl 111c~a.sr11-csits co~~l'or~~~to tht~ fundamental ~x~rl~nx~of tllc- said parks, nlotitltlictits, ant1 rescr\~ntions,which pur- pose, is to conserve thr sccncsry atid thr nat~tralant1 histot-ic objrcts and the- wilcllifc~ therc.iri and to ~~rovid(%Sol- the, c~njoyti1rnt of the same, in sr~chmanner ant1 by such means as will Irave thc111 ~ttiirnl~airc.tlfor thr c~~joymctitof futr~rc~gc*nc.rations." Tlir Act cotlified somr im11ort:ttnt itleos that wcw drifting arountl at the- time,. Prob- ably the most important one, as I'ar as thc fish and othrr atrimnls wet-c, concet-nc.tl, was that wild rrsidents of the parks woreb to be ~,rcscrvrd in their primitive state; the natural I~alanccsof their world wc.rc8 not to be distr~rbetlot- tlamagc.tl. This has been the most difficr~lttask facing the, Top: a pre-I.%? adzlertising cardfor Yattce-v's hotel near Tou~er.luitctioititt Yelloulstone. T11i.y National Park Sr~vicc.-to preserve delicate srrtall rustic of~cratioi~hosted rrtar~vanglers itt a relatiz~elvtcittraz~eled conrer of the park. primitive places like Ycllowstonc and yet Middle: So~i~e,lrj./tersItatre bee~tless ulelcorite tlrart otlrers. Tltri,fislr tra/l vrt Clear- Creek it1 make them available fix millions of peol)lc, 193.9, lirciltfor hatche~~u~ork,featured a11 electricfettce to keej~out the bears. to share ant1 enjoy. Bottoti~:Also it! 1.939, a rvclor~e~fetrcetrap door ulas irr use over tIrc Trout I,nke/irh trap, agaitt By the time of the Park Service Act, lo keep out the bears. Yar1ce.v adrlcrlise~rte~ttis from Aubr4" Hait~es,The Yellowstone Story wildlife ecology was maturing rapidly, and (Colorado Associated Urtiz~ersi!~~Press, 1977), the other turo pictures are courte.yv ofthe 1J.S. various observers in scientific and public Fish attd Wildlife Serzlice. circles were looking at Ycllowstonc with Page 24 nc,w eycs. Tliry wcl-cs a1)l)allctl to tliscovc.r tliat ck;~rly park manngcl-s, in their wcll- intcntioncd zrnl to iml)~-ovc,])ark I'ishing, hat1 introcll~cctlmany ncw fish to tlic park, fish that sul)srqrlc~ntlyrc,placc~tl rarc native> ty11cs.I Thc 1)nrk's native fish wcs~-c,\viltlrr- ncsss inhal~itants,tyl)ic:~ll!~ grlllil~l(~ ant1 morcs rosily caught than most of thc nvw- comrl-s. -1.0 furthrr coml)licatc matters, introtluccd I-ainl~owsoI'trsn Ilvl)~.itlizc~tlwith n;~tivctct~ttliroats, mixing :untl tliluting prlr-r strains of wild l'ish. ;\n cxamplr ol' how ~)oorlyr~ntlcl-stootl the fish I-csourcc was occul-rctl in thc. 1!)20s ~vhcnit \\,as tliscovc~-c~tlthat pelicans on Ycllowstonc Lakc wc,rc3 host for n ~)a~-nsitc that infrctc~tlthe trorlt. Tlierc~was vigorous enthusiasm in thc park atiministl-ation for an rgg-stolnl,ing caml);~ignon thr ~)rlic:ui's nesting islantls. Thc enthusiasm \\'as licightenrtl by the rc:~lization that those 1)elicans atc m:uny tons of tro~it,tlicrrby tlcpriving toul-ists of tloing the samcs. In this case, as in others, thc wild I-csiclc~ntsof tlic pork were still rcgardrtl as convenient ctitertainment for thr visitors. Thcrc was a strong trndcncy to tampcXr with the natural systrms to rnhanccbvisitor cknjoy- ment. I'ublic outcry saved the pelicans, and slowly ~)r~l~licawarcwrss of tlic diffic~~lt mission of the park srrvicc. iml)rovcstl. In the early 1!)20s, tlic Amcrican Asso- ciation for tlir Atlvancc~mc~ntof Scirnce ant1 the Ecological Soc.ic,ty of America resolvet! to oppose any more inti-otluction of nrw plants 01-animals to national parks. Of coursc3,tlic administration of Ycllow- stone had I)cben rrsisting 11cw introtlrlctions for some yvars (just as they wcrcs rrsisting 1na11y mammal introduction proposals, including mountain goat ant1 rcintlccr) I~utnow they harl inct-casing ~~r~l~licsr111- port." Incl-rasing concrrn, both for tlic native fish in tlic 11x1-k and for the quality of sport, lrtl to thc establishment of a formal stocking policy in I93fi: 1. Nonnative fish shall not l~rstockrcl illto waters containing ~iativr,fish. 2. Propagation of native sl,ecics for stocking shnll not 11~3 cncouragcstl. 3. I>istribution of nonnative fish s1)ecies shall not be exl~ancletl. 4. No artificial lake or stream im1)rovc- taincd yield" concept, which had "both as The shadeti area on the ma/) ulas barren of mrnts shall I,c matlr. a goal and a restraint the harvest of fish at fis11 life u111o1YeIlou~.sto~le u1a.s estohlislled in 5. Introclr~ctionof nonnative aquatic fish the highest average catch that can be taken 1872.11 i~rclzrdetia11,losl all of the rlorc~;fa~~~ou.s food organisms shall not IIC maclc. from a pol)r~lationrundrr given environ- Firehole Kirvr, 111uchof t11e C;ihhot~Rirler, 6. Selcctetl waters shall br left barren mental conditions."~liefish popr~lations hot11 Lcrclic. and S11o.sl1o11eLakes, cind ti~at~~~ of fish. continued to suffer under ever-increasing sn~allerstrcanls arltl lakes. Map b? Kenlleth fishing pressurc, and by the early 1960s A. Ericksol1,frol71Thc Yellowstone Story, At the time, these were pretty rc.volu- Yellowstone fishing was in terrible shape. h? Auhr? Hai~les,ref~ri~~teci courtes? of tionary idcas; fishing was widely jutlgctl Managers were begin~iingto realize that Coloraclo As.sociuted l~~~it~ersi!~Press, in tcr~i~sof the gross numl~ersof fish each maximum sustained yield fishiny wouldn't Boultiel; Colorado. person was ablc to carry homr. work, and that a heavy harves; of park From tlic 1930s to the 1960s. this policy fishes was against the ideal of the National remained in effect, but sport fishing in thc Park Act anyway. Fish popr~lationswcre park was still managetl for thr grcatest entitled to the same protection -or some- possible harvest. Management was based thing approaching it-as werr bison or on the now-challc~igecl"maximum sus- elk populations. Page 25 -- Fisl~rr~nrnwrl-c~cl~angingtl~(~irtl~inking tricbd to gcBt rid of t11c Fish ant1 \2'iltllifr too. Manv rcalizrtl that thrrc. wcsrcBillst too Srrvicc~coml)lrtrly). The story of this many I)CY)~)I~,ant1 too frw fish, ant1 that it rc~lationshil)is lascinating and co1o1-frtl, 1 I was no longrr ~~ossil~lrfor cs\rc~rponcsto I)r~tontircbly too 1o11g to t('11 11rrc.. Il'hat take home a 1'1111 c1-c~.1.Reasoning tliat the finally 11al)lx~nc.tlw;~s that I)y 1957 thr 1I sl,ort was in thc catch rno1.c. tl~nt~it1 the I~ntcl~cric~swcsrc, shut clown. Thc Fish antl '; kill, fishrrmcn becan to ~)romotc~fishing \Vil~lliI'c~Scrviccs l)crsonnc*l who rcnn1ainrd for fun rathrr that] mcsat, so that tl1c.1-c, in Yrllowsto~~c~shiftcbd their attc,~~tionto ' would still I)(, fish to catch tomorrows. I-c.srarc11,c~s1)cciolly on Yrllowstonr~Lake. Mottoc3s such as "l.i~nit your kill. tlon't \\'hat t11c.y Irarnr.tl tll(>rr and c~lsc~\~hrrc kill your limit" wcbrca1)rornotcbtl by lisl~ing wo~tltl11c of inc~stirna1)lc~valrtc, to !)ark man- organizations. agc.1-s. One' of thr outgrowth of tl~rsc,II~~W I5y l!)li5 Yrllowstonc, fncctl sc~\~c~r-ol concerns was the corn1)lctr climinntitrt~of major c~cologic;~lcrisc.s, all of \vhicll in- any stocking in 1)ar-k wntc3t.s 1)y 1!1511. volvc*tl cLnormorls ~)ul)licantl 1)oliticnl Stocking was not comj)atil)l(~\\,it11 park intc,rcst, and, as c,vcbnts~~o11lr1 s110\1'. a11 of goals l)c-cnt~sc~it tlitl not allo~~~the n;~t~t~-al which rc~sultc-tlfrom cal-1ic.1. attc%ml)tsto processes to take place; strcams that wcrc. 1)lncc visitor r~sc,of thr rcsourcc al~ovcthe al~leto sul)port fish li fcs nrcrcballowcbtl to ~-c~sor~rcc~'sI~asic I)iologic:~l nc~c~tls.Ilk sul)l,ort liowc~crrn~tcli of it thy cor~ltl. ~x)p~~lationdynamics wereL misr~ntlcrstood I~utwcarcb not give-11 ;uny I)oostc3r shots (it antl t11crc~fo1-chmismanogctl, I~rarmanage- wor~ltlnot I)(, until many ycars 1atc.t. tliat it mc,nt was soon to carlso a towc5r-ing~lational was also witlrly untlrl-stootl that stocking co~~trovc~rsy,])ark 1)iologists wcrc3 srlggc,st- was actually llarmf~~lto any 1)l-cb-rsisting ing that righty yrars of l'orc*st fire, srlpprrs- ' I-c.sidc.nt trout po1,rllation). sion in Yrllowstonc~hat1 I~c~cbna mistake all Though Yrllowstonc~'~fish wcrcBfacing along, and, as \vc ha\.r sctc.n, fish ~)ol)r~la- srrious l,rol)lems. and though those, 1)rol)- tions weret in tlrsl,rl-atc~contlitiot~. Irms would not 1)c. solvrtl I)y the c-limina- I%rcausr of growing ~)ul~licconccbrn tion of stocking, that action was anothrr al~or~tthrse prol~lems,thr National I'ark c~sa~iiplcof how park III:II~~~C~I~I~~II~;~ctio~~s Srrvicc was al)lr to launch iun aml~itious sccn~rdI-atlical at thr time. Just as cs:u.ly re-srarch program in Yrllowstot~e.It was park administrators had refusc.d to accc.pt cot~~~~lcrnc~~itc~tlIly the, rc~tlirc~ctc~tl I'ishcrics any ncw spccics al'trr nl~out1!1OX, n~ltlhat1 I-rscnrch clones I,y thr 11,s. Fish antl \\'iltllife rstablishctl fly-fishing-ot~lyrcagulations ot~ Srrvicc. Whilr thr I'ark Scrvicct str~tlird thc Fircholc antl Madison in 1950 (not thr thc animal and 1)1:111t conl~nr~nitirs.the first srtch rc~g~rlntiot~sin thc country by 1;ish ant1 \Yiltllil'c~Sc~rvicr I)cy~~i c~sllnr~stivc any means, but still very ~cnrtsualat th(. srlr\,rys of all park waters ant1 initiated time), park atlministrators in thr late' 1950s angler surveys and volr~~~trerI'ishcr~~~rn were trying to 11r1sh ah(.ad agoinst a strong rc.l)(xts. Yrllowstonc~dcvr1ol)rtl thrsc*ol)jcc- cnrrrnt. Thc heavy stocking ;untl massivca tivc-s to gr~idcfr~turr man;~g:-cmrnt: hatchery programs that hatl grown 1111 all over the country since) 15)00 hat1 gc,ncratc.tl I. Thr 1,rotrction. l,crl)c~tuation, ant1 ;I conviction that stocking was the salvation restoration of the natural aquatic of all fishing. The- notion that trout cor~ltl environments. nntivr fishes, and thc associatetl fauna, antl flora. to I~rtrnthrmsc~lvc~s ortt, as thry hat1 done, by the simple rel)rodr~ctivc1)rocrssrs that 2. To ~~rovitlefor rrcrcationnl fishing in thr arcn for thor~santlsof ycars I~el'orc- had served so well for thousantls of yc8ars. by thr conservative and controllrtl the- cstal)lisl1mcnt of thr park. many oltl- was radical in itsc~lf. use of nntivc antl nonnative fish timc-rs wc~c,11or-I-il'ic*tl: thry \\rcrcstrainc.tl There were other ol)staclcs to t-c.stori~~g ~x)l~ttlations.This will I)(, accom- on the, Smoky Bc~rrtl~ic. that nll fire, is plishrd Ily regulations that will insr~rc* rvil. It was hartl to \vntch the oltl ortlrr natural fish pol)ulations. . in Ycllowstonc~. Possibly the most formicla1)le on(, was high quality fishing as 11i11-t of thc tlict. bureat~cratic.As the National I'ark Srrvicc- park cslwriencr withor~tcnt1:rngcaring I%r~tfishing changotl wit11 rclativc,ly was awakening to its pccu1i:u- ol~ligations fish ~)olx~lations,or impairing thc littlc ol,l)ositiot1. Antlcrson ;untl his staff in Ycllowstonr, the U.S. Fish and Wildlifc~ wildlife, scenic, scientific, c.cologica1. instit~~trtlnrw and rvc,I- moreL rrstr-ictivcb Service (descendant of the. oltl I1.S. Fish and historical values of the park ant1 rcg~~lations,tlc~sigtlrtl to ~)rotrctnative fish Cornmission, and the Burcni~of Sl)ot-t thrir cnjoyrncbnt by nonfisl~ingvisi- lx)lx~lationswhilr allo\cri~~ganglers to catch Fisheries and Wildlife) had trlrned several tors. (and ~-el~ase)a grc*at many n1o1-cbfish. Sinccs Yellowstonc. waters into a sul)c.rb hotchc~ry 1973 many park strcnnls 11;1ve bccw matlc, egg-source. While on the one hand thc Thr overhaul of c.cologica1 nlatlagr~nc.nt catch-antl-rc~lrnsrfishing only. Somr othrl-s Park Service. was sr~pposedto 11' 1,rc.sc~rving in Yellowstollr really commc.ncct1 in 1967. have 11ec.11 closrtl cornl>lctc~ly,to allow native fish po1)ulatio11s, on th(%otlirr when Jack Antlerson becamr Sr~pcrinten- wntc~rfowland \vildlif(. to us(%the shorclinr hand the 1J.S. Fish and Wiltllifc Srrvicc tlcnt. Tlic nest ten yrars wcrcS oncbs of undisturl~c~d.Thc. rc~sl,onscxfrom anglers was supposed to mass-product, trorlt. great progress ant1 equally grcat contro- has 11ec11 ovcrwhelminglv si~pl)ortivc,. Throughout their long stay in thr park vcsrsy. One docks not makr c11;ungc.s withor~t A~ltlcrson.who retired in 15175. was the (and in other Park Srrvice areas, as wcll) rocking someB very large, 1)oots. \2'11rn recipient of awards from angling organiza- there was tension brtwc.cn thc Fish ant1 rangers 11eg;r11 to chasc I~lack\)cars fro~n tions. antl the park is now I'rcqurntly hailrtl Wildlife Srrvicc. ant1 park manag:-c,rs. It the- roacl, ant1 fine visitors ~7110I'rd I)cwrs, as a model of cnlightcnrtl fisheries managr- has been an oftcn mutr~allybc~ncficial ant1 Inany ~)eol)lrwere o~~tragrtlthat thrir oltl- newt. yet occasionally str-ai~~rtlrc.lationshil) (011 time zoo cxl)c.riencc, was I~cit~gc~liminatetl. With continurd rr~searchand cnligl~t- at least three occasions Yrllowstonc- officials When natur-ally-car~srtl1'irc.s wcBrcallowc.tl cnc.cl administr-ation. thc I'uturc~of sport- Page 26 fishing is brighter than it has been lierc, brcn made illegal in Ycllowstonr to keep A tliclil of Yellorc~sto~rcI.nke, /,rohah!\~ in the since Su1)crintendc~ntNorris stat-tcd tlay- the resource from being grossly damagetl. 18iU.~or ecrr!v ICIXUs. photo courte,~~of //le dreaming about carp. We nrc now showing Fishing stands almost alonc as a direct il;crtio~~cilPark Ser~lice.Or~er: crtlotl~er the aquatic ecosystems of thr park far morc wilderness-to-mouth use of the park. Even Yellorc~sto~leLcikc rlieri~,courtesv of the respect than we rBvcrhave. But as wc havr in catch-ancl-release water, where all fish N(rtio11cr1I'crrk Sotlicc. learned how bcst to c,njoy park fishing, mr~stbe released immediatrly, n certain and how bcst to ~,rrsc~rvcthr, fish rrsourccs. number of fish will tlie simply from the we have been compelled to ask ourselves tratu-na and exertion of being caught and other, less optimistic questions. handled. And even if none of them died, For many years now, Park rangcxrshave wor~ldwc ever allow rn:um~nalsto r~ndergo Pacetl thc) tliffict~ltquestion of "Why can similar treatment? What if visitors were we fish hrre if we can't hunt hrre:'" This is allowed to lasso clk? There is no ecological to say, "Why do wc allow tlic harvest ol difference, as far as interfering with wilcl- some animals (fish), but not of others? lifc. Aren't all park iunimals protected cqually These arc ~)rovocativrthoughts. Fish by the law?" It is not a siml)lc. question,. arc not as easily rnjoyccl as many other and there is not room to r~xl)lorcit herr,. park animals: anglers are unquestionably We can only suggest, briefly, that cvcryonc getting very tuned-in on the natural world who cares abor~tthc wild inhabitants of of trout when thcy go fishing. Perhaps the the park needs to consitler th~.l,rcbsent impact of their activity is worth it for the situation in all its aslxbcts. intangible rewards of enrichment and Parks, in order to survive the crt~shof appreciation thcy get fro111 t11c sport.7 n3ode1-n visitation, are vrl-y restrictive lust as, fifty ycars ago, thercs were a about what kincls of ~,ul)licrecrration arc growing number of 1,cople who questioned l~cr~nittcd.Flower-l~icking, rock-collecting. our gross exploitation of fish l)ol,r~lations, bear-fc>cding, ant1 tree-chopl~inghave a11 tlicre arc today a growing number of Page 27 people who question the vcsry practice, of ;tlso ;I c.rc,tlit to tl~c-irfi~-rn~lc.\s 111 co11vic.tion: ill "l'lic- conccy)t 01 mnsili1111n su\tnillc*tl yirltl fishing in Yellowstone. Fishing is srlrcly l Page 28 Books T11eDerrvdale Press: A Riblio,gra/>l~v sulxrfine paper. Tlir excellent illustrations bibliograpliy one is writing. Further, Gas- by 1I.A. Sicgel, 1I.C. Marsclialk, and I. were printed by the Meriden Gravure Com- kell mentions tliat tliccurrent conventions Oelgart. The Angler's & Shooter's Press l~a~>YTA deluxr edition (26 lettered copies) of bibliography (as derived from the work (Goshen, Comiccticut, 06756), 1981, 266 has also been issued. of Sir Walter Greg) should be strictly ad- pages, $125.00. Now to the bibliography. Philip Gas- hered to. A perusal of the bibliography kell in his book A Neul Introductioll to Bibli- under consideration indicates tliat the au- The Deryvdale Press, A Ribliqrapll-v by o,graply (Oxford University Press, 1972) thors have for the most part followed the Colonel IIenry A. Siegel, IIarry C. Mars- defines bibliography as "a list of books de- correct "five part" descriptive techniques. chalk, ant1 Isaac Oelgart is tlie A~igler's scribed it>more or- less detail. . . ." IIe goes Ilowevc~r,their analysis of format and and Shooter's Press's latcst pul~lication. on to say that it [bibliography] "is an over- collation is very abbreviated in compari- Bound in bright retl cloth and housed in used and ambiguous word, for it is applied son to more scholarly bibliographies.. . For an attractive blue slip case, tlie volume of- to anything from an abbreviated checklist tlie put-pose eof illustration consider the fers devotees of "Derrydales" the most up- of references to a minutely particularized entry describing TroutingAlong the Catasau- to-date bibliograpliy of the 1)crryclale Press. descriptive investigation." Gaskell states quu, published by the llerrydale Press in One hundretl and sixty-nine entries are that thc descriptive techniques used in ana- 1927. Comparison of thisentry in the Siegel found beginning with Ar71ericall Trout lytical bibliography may be "considered in 1)ibliography with a similar entry in Williani Streavls, which was published in 1926, and five parts" Mitchell van Winkle's Riblio,~rap/lv.... of . the ending with A Prirlate Affnir (1941).In adcli- (I) transcriptions of the title page MJritir1,qs o/Frank Forester serves to denion- tion to the bibliography section there arc (2) a for~nulafor the analysis of format stratcbthis point. Van Winkle's collation is thirteen chal~tcrs,including a brief biog- and collatio~~ much morc, coml~lcte.It enumerates the raphy of the Press's founder Gene Con- (3)a technical note, detailing press fig- acknowlcdgcment to Orange Judd Coni- nett; a chapter on thc contributions of Ernest ures, type, palm-, plates, etc. ['any for pcrniission to reprint (11. iv) ant1 Gee; a chapter on "The Pain and I'leas~~re (4)tletails on contents :tdvises 11s that the book was dedicated "to of Derrydale Collecting"; and a chapter (5)notes of any other information which the memory of Fred E. Pond" (11. v). Details that lists the "Personalities Associated with relate to the history of the books, and such as these have been omitted from the tlie 1)errydale Pressw-to mention ,illst a a list of tlie copies examined. Siegel text. Neither bibliography mentions few. Two al)l,endices arc also includetl. <;askell, however, isquick to point out that the number of copies examined. The Stinchour Press printed and bound tlir degree of emphasis on any of the above Most disturbing to me is the failure of this edition of 1,250 copies on Mohawk "parts" will vary according to the type of this Derrydale bibliography to 111ention any details concerning the contents of the books covered and why a particular work is significant. For example, under "com- ments" for Joel Barber's Wild Foul1 Decovs (1934) the statement is made that this "is one of the most important books published by Connett," but no reason is given as to why. Granted so~rleof this information can be found elsewhere, but inclusion in the bibliography section would make this refcr- ence work much more useful. A section entitled "Personalities Asso- ciated with the Derrydale Press" is intrigu- ing, but somewhat puzzling. The compilers of this list have chosen to give us short biographies of many but not all of the list's members. And it is difficult to ascertain the method behind their eclecticism. Is David Wagstaff more notable than Kenneth Roberts or William Milnor? In summary, the latest Derrydale bibli- ography is an interesting and useful publi- cation for both book dealers and Derry- Page 29 tlnl(t collectors. I canjoyc~tl reatling it, cbs- Fislrc~sis a Ix~atttil'r~lly~)rotlrtcc~tl Ilook. It il~r,.yliir,q;a~lotl~rr all-ki~~tls-of-fislii~ig history 1)t'cially thc 11iogrnl)liy of(:otlnc,tt 11y St(-vc.11 contaitls a I'orc~wortlI)y 1.ortl I litr(li~~g(~01 l~ook.\\'I~(-ti yo11 tIii11k ;~l)otttit. it looks :I\ Fc,rguson. Tht, first al)l>cntlix,~vhich tlcnals I'c~tisllurst ant1 a I'ul~lislic~r'sNote; l)olli il (;Il:irli(~ Iiiis 1vrittc11 111orc~1);tgcts :tl)ottt with "The Car(, of 13ooks." is valr~al~lcill ~)~.ovitlcI)ackg1.o11ntl inl'ornlatio~lon t11(, I'ishing Itistory tllatl anyono c,lsc., inclutling that it alcl-ts 111~.collecto~. to the, 1)1.01)c1. lirst ctdition, ljrtt l)otli arc lac.ki11git1 detail. tllc I)c,st-kno\\.n of our fishing historians. mrthotls l'or t11(- liantlling ittld storitg(' 01 ant1 so tllosc \vitll n sc,riorts i11tc.t-cbstin 111(* <:ovcbring all asl)ccts of fi.;liing history his I~ooks.\Yliil(~ 7'lrc I)cri:\~ilulc I'rc~.ss, il l1isto1.y of tllc. I~ookshoultl t.c%atlI)a\ritl in one I)ook is a lot like* covc,ri~lgall nsl)ccts llihlio,qrn/)h\l is mrtch ilior(~tllan a c.ltc.c.k- I.;t~ik'a;trticlv, mc~~ltionctlal)o\rc.. \\'it11 tli;tt of/Y.~lriir,qin on(- I~ook;you jrtst sort of skim list, it i\ not a 11-rtc I)il~liog~.al)llyit1 t11c t.cf(~1.(*11(.c~111:tcIc. this rcvic-\v Ilits scr\'c(l its tllc. srt~.I'nco.But 11 Ili.stoi:\' (!/ A~r,qliir,yskim\ "(;askcllia~i"sc,tlsc3: 1)ttt. I ask, is any sl)o~.ti~lg I)~II-I)OX~01 dra\ving attctition to tliisc~scc~l- it l)rtstty\vc,II. I sc~,somcs y)ccific. factual csr- l)il~Iiogritpliy? Ict~t11c,\v cltlition 01 an iml)ort:i~ltI~ook. rors (stt.carncrs \v(.rc dc\t~lo~)(~(llong I)cl'orcs 1).1',.1.. r1lt.c. lac.kson 1880; sl)o~.tfishingin c.olot>i:tl ;\nlc-ria \\as mores \vitlcsl)rc~atltlla~l hr atlmits: (;or(lo11 ~Iri!i.slt Fre.~lr-11 '(11cr Fi.~lre.s tlitln't o~.iginatcs;\nicsrican tlrv I'ly fishing), I)y Thc, Rcv. \V. I lor~glito~t.\Yc,l)I) X. I%o\vcr brtt tI1(.y arcs uniml)ortant coml)arcstlto\\.hat 1,ttl. (33 Sor~tli~~rnhnyEast. Exr~tcr,1)c~votl. thr I)ook :tccoml)lisllc*s in other. tlircactions. EX I I XS. Englantl). 1!)HI. S: Ilri1ic.h Frc'sh-Mirter Fi.slrc~.\\\.as first 1)rll)- ,\11votic>\\.I10 h:ts rcatl nltlc.11 ol (:liarlic* 1)c~rso11;tlitic~sor siml)lc tlatcss. I I(, \\rontlr~.s. lislictl in IUU!) in two vol11mc-scontaitli~ig \\'atctrman's writing krlo\c$sthat hc is rc~l~tc- at lc~~gtli.ovc.~. tlict \v:ty\ \vc3 rc~strictnntl forty-one mngnificent cll~~omolitl~ogra~)l~s.tatit to Irt on Illat lies really kno\vs\crhat he's tlclincb ortr sport. ovc5t. "fislii~lgI11r.c.s ant1 ;It a price of scvcnty shillings it \v;~sa11 talLi11g al1ol11.I~lstcutl he'll gcst thcmcnssago the mystc*t.iorts \v;t? in \vliic.ll tlicy come ctnormot~slyc~xl)c~nsi\~c~ I~ook. yet it \v;~sa across intlirc~ctly.wit11 "I tlitltl't catch much ant1 go." ovct. tr.ortt fishing \vritc,t.s who succc~ss;it \\.as rc~issuc~tlit1 It(!).l-lU!)T, (at ten tli;tt (lay. I~rttnly \\.ifcscaught nl~outa Ilrttl- tcs~ltl"to\vartls l.;~lintcLrms ctntl mootly rhc.1- shillings ant1 six pcsnc.cs);111(1 itgititl it1 I000 tlt.cstl \vitIi a fly shc~tictl likc~this . . .."or "I oric" atltl !)ass ~v~.itcbrs\vho ";~l)lio~-srtcli cf- (at wvcn shillings ant1 six pc~ncc~)iZmo11g \\,0111tI11't take my own wortl lor this, l)ut Ictcb al)l)~.oac.licsuntl\vt~itc~c:trt-It~IIy toavoit! I)ook collccton the first csclition is a rnuc.11 yo11 can I)clic~vc~it I)c~cortsc~ I lit~artl it I'~.oma IIc~ingac,cltsc,tl of litcs1.ac.y." ant1 ovcsr \)ass sortglit-aftcsr item. As 1)avitl I.ank 11otetl I'~.ic,ntl\\.llo nc\rcnrI)or-ro\vs rnot1c.y from mc,." to~tt~~~~ttiic~itsthat 1ii:11iy co~lsi(l(~rtoo 1)t.o- somca time ago in Tlrc, illkriitic. Sir111roirlorrr- Iir~t,t1.v as lic~\\'ill. Cllnrlic~can't1-cba11y hitlc f(~ssio~~:illvcoml)clitivc I)rtt that l~nv(~1)ro- 1ri11(No. 2. 1!)73), it is "c~o~~sitlcrc~dI)y many t11:it he knows marc, nbortt fishing than most vitlctl nlotlc~rna11glr1-s \\it11 all kinds of thr most ~xb~-l'(~tc~x:ttiil>lc of \'ictoriati I)ook- ~)cbol)lr.Atltl no\\- it's rc~ac.llc~tlthcb 1)oint tackle iml)ro\~cmc~~~ts(sort 01 tht. \vny a ~liaking." \\.11crc lir'sgoi~lgto have toatlmit hc, kno\vs makc,s us 11c.ttc.r at mc,tlicinc. lit111 (:ll;trlic'?). *The cliromolitI~ogm~)l~softhr first csdi- mot.(%al~out fishi~ighistory than almost any- 71'l~isis a scnsil)lc*.witty, ant1 intclligcbnt tion arc to so~iiocxtcsnt rc~sl)onsil)l(~for its I,Otl\~. too I~ook.It is not a tcstl)ook, ora scholarly rc.1- I\ I'cw vcsarsago hr wretch a colorful, nl)- ct.cbnccsI~ook. It's a ~)ol)ularlytvrittrn I~ook ~)t-csmltscarcity ant1 high cost; unsc.t.ul>rtlous ~ - tlralcrs tlc.stroy the I~ookto obtain the, ~)latrs. waling I~ookcallr~tl Fi.shi~r,g iir A iircricir, a on a srtl~jcctthat tlrsc~rvc~sn large-r ~)ol)ular Some of the ~>latc,sllavcs I)c-cbn rr~~)rotlucc*tl richly illr~stratcatlrcvic>\v of sportfishitig autlic~ncc~than it no\+.has. I li01)c it stalls a in several ~)lncc,s,niost notal~lcI)c-i~lg the I'ro~nprimitives times. (:harlic I'rrctIy ark- lot of col)ic~s.I)c~~;tusc thctl maybe more Salii~o~rf'ortfi~lio prc1)~trc~tIby Etiviroti111~~11t nowlcdgrd th(~help hr got fro111 sotncs c.01- 1)('o1)1(%will ~-cantlfishing history 1)y thosca of Canacla for thcb 197-1 l,arv oftlir Sca <:onfc,r- I(,ctor friends, but it was largcsly his own 11s u.ho arc ntltlictc.tl to foott~otctsant! \vho c,~,ccin Caracas. wol-k that madc thc I~ooksl~ch pleasant Inck <:h:trlic's scb~lscof humor. The 1981 edition of llritish Fresh-Uhter rratling. Now hc has produced A Hisrorv of 1'.S. Museum News Annual Meeting at the Conclave, August 11-14 M(,ml)c-rswill I)(* rc~ccsivingnotic.(* l:ttcsr Musc811rn I'rcsitl(-~lt (;ar(lnct. (;rant is ant1 csxl)cric*nc.c,(at (:ornc-ll 1lnivc.rsitv) in this spritlg of thcs Musc~ttm'sAnnrlal Mcm- c.\~rrc,lltlymaking ar~.angc~rnc~~its\\.it11 th(. l il)ral-y ant1 c.:ttalogrting systems. zinc1 has I~crshipmc,cating, to I)(- hc*ltl concwrrc~ntly (:onclavc~(:ommittc,c, so that thcs Muscsum's Ii(~11)c~l11s immcansc.ly ill th~,1-cfi1lc.n1c*nt wit11 the I:c~tl(.t-atiot~of Fly E'ish(~rs12nn11al mc-ctings (lo not conf1ic.t \\.it11 any othc*ra(.- ant1 organization ol th(. Rlusc~um'sall-im- <:onclavc in \irc,st Yc~llowstonc.Montana. tiviticss on tht- sch(~tlul(*. 1)0rta11t r(.('o~'(l-kc-cs~)i~igs!jstc,ms. I.ast ycur's (:onc.lavc was thc. I)c*st at- -I'Ii(~ lic~gistrarin most m1tscums f1tnc.- tcntlc-tl c*vc,r,ant1 th(, numtbrolls Ic~ctl~rc~s, tions as th(*kt~,l)c~ ol Ill(. catnlogs. tht- l)csrson drmo~~stratiot~s,ant1 social lunctions ninkc \\.lie sc~~sto it that cac.11 it(-m that is tlonatcbtl the <:onclavc. the most important cvcsnt ill Some. 01 our rcsatl(-rs may have, notic.csd is 1)rolwrly loggc~lin th(3 musc.um's nc.c.c3s- thr Fc-tlcration's yc,;tr. Moml~crsintcnrc*stcstl that in rc~.c~111issues oftll(~Magazi~~c, \vcS list sioti I~ookant1 assol-tc~lc.atalog systc5ms.1311 CII the grcS:~tc3st1):trt tli(*WOI-k :I 1)rol'cs- in Irarning morcBal)out thcs I'c~tlc~-ationof a R(sgistrar as I~cingpar-t ofthc. staff. Some p. 01 01 Fly Fishrrs (and wcs think yo11 shoultl) (.an t imc ago MY^ Ili~-c~dJoAn~ia Slicritlan to \\,o~-k sionnl museum stall is cl(~votctlto thcs contact them at th(-ir lic~atltlr~nrtc~rsoffic.c*, l'or. 11s as Rchgistrar. SoAnna, \\~liolives in I~c~litntl-tll(~-s(~(~~i(~s~)~.oc.c,ssc~s of pro1)c'rIy I'ost Ol'fiec. Box 1088. \\'csst Y(allowstonc.. ~lc-arl~yliu~)(*rt. V(srmo~tt. wit11 hvr lir~sl>antl itl(bntifying, c.;ttaloguing, intlcxing, ant1 Montatia, 59758 ( I -.lO(i-(i4(i-<)54I ). ant1 thrc-c chiltlrc~n.has c*xtcwsivc.t ~ti11it1g stori~igof gilts nlitl ll1(.11caring lor th(m The Center and the Conclave We shoul here a ,leu1 retlderi~lg.vf the ~ropo.sedI~lter~l(i/ional I;!v Fishi~tgCe~ller, West Yelloul.sto~te,M~II/~II~. 7'he colter t~ieul,fro111 ahotv, .s/~oul.s/he .s~itallcrautlitoriul~l huiltli~lg; .separo/ed fro111 the 111ain huilrli~zghv u courtvaro'. Tire layer huildi~~,~hou.ses /he ad111i11i.stratitle offYces ofhoth the Fetlercilio~~c111tf tire Mzr.seu~~l011 the r Page 31 David Ottiger We are inexpressibl~~gnnerled to report that the Museurn i Director of Derlelopn~et~tDatlid Ottiger and his urlfe and daughter died it1 an automobile accident 011 April 3 near Philadelphia. Dauidi son, age serlett, sunlitred the accident. David becattle the Museum 's Director of Ile~relopn~entlast September, arzd had responsibili!vfor rr~ar~agir~gour auctiorz pro,qanl. He persortallv oriersaw our Sarz Francisco auction and the,first fulo auctions of our springpro~qatn,in New York and Cleveland. He ulas itt the process of preparing and directing the auctior~arrat~gernents in Neu1,retsqv and Wisconsin. David ulas born on May 2, 1950. He ,qraduated frorn Pratt Institute urith a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1972, While there he sertied as Editor-in-chief of [he colle~qeneulspaper and was elected to both Who's Who in American Universities and the National Student Register. He was a tnen~beroffhe rlarsi(y fenciy tean~.fion~ 1972 to 1978 he ulas Director of Creatizle and Production Sen~icesfor the Barton-Gillet Con~pan-11of Neur York attd Baltin~ore,a t~~ajorfur~d-raisir~g consultingfirn~.In 1978 he four~dedhis ouln consultir~gfirtn,Windsor Con~n~unications,u~l~iclt specialized in cotnrr~ut~icationsand rnarketingfor non-profit institutiot~s. The officers and staff ofthe Museunl extend their heartfelt syn~pathiesto his fanlily and friends. once they are proprrly store-tl. Caring for important valucs bc~sitlcspublic exhibit, the magazines available now: them, of course, involvcs such things as and t11c.y makc the work of thr Registrar kecping them from drtrrioration, making cxtrcmcly important; without goocl docu- Volume Five, Numbers 3 ancl 4 them availablc for study, c.mploying thcm mrtitation and cross-refc~rcncing,thr best Volume Six, Numbers 1, 2, 3, antl 4 in museum caxhibits, anel occasionally up collrction is vrry tlifficult to use. Volr~tiieSeven, Nnmbrrs 2, 3, and 4 dating thcir catalog c,ntric,s as more infor- Our Rrgistrar has, thrn, brcn conccbn- Volumc Eight, Nr~ml~crs1, 2, 3, anti 4 mation is lcarnrtl about them. trating on making thr "papc.r chasr" of Volrtmc~Nine,, Nruml)crs 1 ant1 2 Musc~umsdcal with thr~sc~dutics in a locating antl st~ttlyitigan object as efficic,nt witlc variety of ways, ant1 with varying as possible. Working about twrnty hours a degrc>es of thorouglinrss. Thc currrnt wccsk ovrr thr past yrar, she has inventoried Place your order with the Registrar, cataloguing project going on at thc Smith- srvc~ralcategorics of objc*cts(rebels, miscrl- The Museum of American Fly Fishing, sonian is a good c~xamplrof how massive, lancxous, rtc.), and is currently ovc,rhauling Manchester, Vermont, 05254. Enclose $4.00 and ovc,rwhrlming such work can bc, rs- thr library catalog systtms, with spccial for each copy desired. The 964.00 covers pecially if allowc~clto pile up; the, Smith- attc~ntionto the tackle, ratalogs, pc,riodicals, postage. sonian, using the most modern coniputcr ant1 scparatrs (clippings, nianuscripts, techniques, is going to be some years orga- photographs, and so on). Wr anticipatc, nizing their collection just so they can find that by thr end of thc yrar, tleprnding on JOIN TEIE MUSEUM what they have. the pacc of building in Wcst Yc.llowstonc~, All in all, the catalogs of Thr Museum we will have. complctetl most of this projrkct, Membership Rates of American Fly Fishing arc, in prrtty gootl aftrr which it will only bc ncBccbssaryto Associate $ 20 shape; we liatl drvotr~tlvoluntcrrs caring makc sure newly acquirctl itcms arc propcr- Sustaining $ 30 for the collection for its first tcn ycars, ant1 ly entered in the records. Then we. will Patron $100 they put in many hours keeping thr rc~corcls have the luxury of looking for additional Spotisor $250 straight. What thc project now undcrway rcfinemrnts that might be niadc, in the is doing is straighGning out some kinks systcbn~swc arc1 now creating, so that the Send your membership application and that developed in the catalog systems as Museum will continuc to improve, itsacrrss full address to the Secretary, The Museum they were transferreel from ones voluntccsr to the objects and information it sc~c,ksto of American Fly Fishing, Manchester, to another, and in refining the, systc.tns so prcbsc'rvc2. Vermont, 05254. The Muscun~is a member that more "finding aids" may be developed. of the American Association of Museun~s Such aids includr indcxes that arrangr rods, and the American Association for State for example, by manufacturer, or by thr BACK ISSUES AVAILABLE and Local IIistory. We are a non-profit materials of which they arcbconstructctl. It educational institution chartered under the i\ these rcfinrmc.nts that scLta good musc.11111 We havc the following back issues of laws of the state of Vernlont. a\ide from a poor onea; practically all museums rxhibit only a \mall part of their rollrction, holding the rcst in storagc for later use. Indccd, in our Musc~utnas in San Francisco Auction, November 30 many, we havc many items that will ncvcsr br exhibited. They arc "study" items: oncs The Museum ulill be holding its third antzual Sari Francisco auctior~on perhaps not distinguishrd cnough to be Noven~ber30 at the Green Hills Country Club in Millbrea, Cal(fornia. Art Frejr and cxhibitetl but still worth prcsrrving for Larry Gilsdorfare Co-Chairtner~ofthis event, and ule are lookir~gforu~ardto a great their historical intcrcst. For cxample, it errenit~gurith our friends in the bay area. may be enough to exhibit only a frw reels We will report on the details of this event in our r~extissue. Irltritatior~su~ill be from the fatnous Meissr.lbach factory, but sent ulell in advance of the auction. Anyor~ewishing to learrz rrlore abozrt the auction as a proper muscuni it is our rrsponsibility can contact Art Frey, Post Ofice Box 13, Burlingan~e,California 94010(1-415-344-4231), to try to obtain one- of crvcry model that firn~produced. Thrscs itrms have othcr Page 32 Next Our Summer issue looks at the ori- of telling pretty stories with tidy endings. angling writings that predate the Treatise gins of several aspects of fly fishing. Alec Jackson will be examining the At- and constitute a monumental discovery in Ken Cameron is back with a lengthy lantic salmon fly as it appeared in Blacker's angling history; the Treatise has long been examination of the dry fly, both its Art of Fly Making, a mid-1800s masterpiece regarded as the first English-language work neglected pre-nineteenth century from which we will reproduce some glorious on fly fishing, but scholars have long as- history and the social and tcchno- hand-colored plates of flies. sumed it was part of a tradition of some logical circumstances that brought We will also offer a lengthy review of a greater age. Now earlier wnrkc hav~rnmp about its popularity in the late 1800s in book recently published in Brussels-a to light, and much Great Britain. As usual, Ken has some pene- scholarly study of the Treatise on Fishing early angling his- trating things to say about how we have With an Angle. This new study reveals a tory may have to simplified our fishing history for the sake number of previously unknown British be reconsidered.